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Botched Investigations Lead to Executions

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an OpEd in today's Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina.  It's by Larry Cox, the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA.   LINK When the United States abolishes the death penalty, some of its most ardent proponents ironically may be remembered for having made the most effective case for its demise. Texas Governor Rick Perry's obvious attempt to suppress the truth in the supposed arson case against Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for a crime that probably didn?t occur, reveals the heinousness of capital punishment. That an innocent individual can be executed is disturbing. That the death penalty?which has claimed about 50 lives in the United States so far this year?is used for political purposes, while doing nothing to deter violent crime, is abhorrent...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 01, 2009 (boomark / email).