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Leonard Pitts Looks at the Anthony Graves Case

By Steve Hall

The Pulitizer Prize-winning syndicated columist writes, "Justice, delayed and denied."  It's via the Miami Herald, Pitts' home paper. It was once a staple plot of TV westerns: There's been a vicious killing. Everybody knows who did it -- or thinks they know -- and the posse wants to string the varmint up. No need for the bother of a trial. The crime was outrageous, people are furious. So get the rope, find a tree.Watching, you'd be glad we've moved beyond frontier justice, glad the howling of the mob can no longer stampede us into condemning an innocent man.Anthony Graves would beg to differ. In 1992, he was arrested for a multiple murder that roiled the tiny Texas town of Somerville. A 45-year-old woman, her 16-year-old daughter and four children, all younger than 10, had been beaten, stabbed and shot to death and their home torched...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).