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Innocents Executed?

By Steve Hall

In Monday's Democratic Party gubernatorial debate, businessman Farouk Shami stated that Texas has executed innocent people.  (See transcript, here; news coverage, here.)  He's taken some criticism for that assertion, most notably the Dallas Morning News editorial, noted here. It's true that no executed Texas death row inmate has been proved innocent beyond anyone's doubts.  However, three cases have been investigated by journalists and there is credible evidence that these three men were innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted and executed.One is obviously Todd Willingham, about whom a great deal has been written lately.  The original reporting on his case was done by Steve Mills and Maurice Possley in a 2004 Chicago Tribune series on junk science...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).