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: StandDown Texas Project

Claude Jones News Conference - Expanded Coverage

By Steve Hall

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"Texas should overhaul death penalty laws, lawyer says," is the title of the AP report by Michael Graczyk, via the Austin American-Statesman. The execution of a Texas man whose plea for DNA testing was ignored shows procedures and laws covering capital punishment need to be changed, a leading anti-death penalty lawyer said Friday. Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck said the execution of convicted murderer Claude Jones 10 years ago took place only because then-Gov. George W. Bush wasn't told by his legal team that Jones' lawyer was seeking DNA testing on a piece of hair used to convict him. "I have great hopes that when President Bush reviews this case he will acknowledge what I think is obvious here, and that is that he was blindsided, he was misled, and he would have granted that DNA test to Claude Jones and everything would have been different for Claude Jones...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 13, 2010 (boomark / email).

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