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Shouting From the Rooftops

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Diann Rust-Tierney's last post at Huffington Post.  LINK  She's the Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Three years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia wrote: "(there has not been) a single case - not one - in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred in recent years, we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent's name would be shouted from the rooftops." We knew then, though, that innocents had been executed. So we issued a report entitled "Innocent and Executed: Four Chapters in the Life of America's Death Penalty." In that report, we told the stories of four such men: Ruben Cantu, Carlos De Luna, Larry Griffin and Cameron Todd Willingham...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).