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: StandDown Texas Project

Innocence Project News Conference

By Steve Hall

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Here are the initial news accounts. "Innocence Project: Overhaul death penalty laws," is the first AP report, via Google News.  There is a photo gallery, as well. A leading anti-death penalty lawyer says the execution of a Texas man whose plea for DNA testing was ignored shows procedures and laws covering capital punishment need to be changed. Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck said Friday in Houston that the execution of convicted murderer Claude Jones 10 years ago took place only because then-Gov. George W. Bush wasn't aware Jones' lawyer had asked for DNA testing on a piece of hair used to convict him. Bush's office has declined to comment on the case. The hair was the only piece of physical evidence tying Jones to the 1989 killing...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).

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