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Leonard Pitts Revisits the Anthony Graves Exoneration

By Steve Hall

"Death Row backers blind to injustice," is the title of the award-winning columnist's latest.  His syndicated column is via the Miami Herald, his home paper.  In this excerpt, Pitts is referring to Pamela Colloff's Texas Monthly examination of the case, published last month. Colloff?s story drew outraged media attention, including from yours truly. But the attention that mattered was that of the current DA, Bill Parham, who undertook his own investigation. He was unequivocal in explaining his decision to drop charges. ??There?s not a single thing that says Anthony Graves was involved in this case,? he said. ?There is nothing.? One hopes people who love the death penalty are taking note. So often, their arguments in favor of that barbarous frontier relic seem to take place in some alternate universe where cops never fabricate evidence and judges never make mistakes, where lawyers are never inept and witnesses never commit perjury...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 08, 2010 (boomark / email).