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Two Recent Exonerations Bring the Number of Death Row Exonerees to 135

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

On Thursday, July 9th, Herman Lindsey of Florida became the 135th death row exoneree since 1973 after the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ordered his freedom. The Court determined that there was not enough evidence to convict him of murdering a Fort Lauderdale pawnshop worker in 1994. Lindsey?s exoneration was the 23rd in Florida since the reinstatement of the death penalty. The court ruled that the Broward County prosecutors needed to show there is "a reasonable and moral certainty that the accused and no one else committed the offense charged. It is not sufficient that the facts create a strong probability of, and be consistent with guilt. They must be inconsistent with innocence." Only three days earlier, Ronald Kitchen was exonerated in Illinois when the state?s Attorney General dropped all charges against him...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).