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More Commentary Following Robert Thompson's Execution

By Steve Hall

"Another life gone because of bad law," is the Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial.  It appeared in the Friday edition. On Nov. 19, Robert Lee Thompson, 34, became the 23rd person to be executed in Texas this year.He should still be alive. Not because he was a good man, because he wasn?t ? or least he was not 13 years ago when the 21-year-old Thompson and his buddy, Sammy Butler, were involved in the armed robbery of a Houston store in which clerk Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed was killed.Evidence showed that Butler shot Mohammed to death, and for this act a Harris County jury sentenced him to life in prison. Another jury sentenced Thompson to death.Thompson was guilty of a crime that day. He shot a different store clerk, who survived the incident...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 30, 2009 (boomark / email).