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With Doubt's Raised, It's Time to Address Flawed System

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial from yesterday's edition of the Austin American-Statesman.  LINKLike the overdue family chat about the uncle everybody knows is not quite right, it's time for Texas to talk about something many folks know is not quite right.Whether you support or oppose the concept, there's no ignoring the serious problems in the execution of how we execute people. Eleven Texas death row inmates have been exonerated.In 2009, we dealt with disturbing developments in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for the slaying of his three children in a fire.A state-commissioned report said law-enforcement witnesses who offered key testimony "had poor understandings of fire science."Does that mean Willingham was innocent? Not necessarily...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).