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Clarence Brandley on the Harris County Hearing

By Steve Hall

"Lykos was wrong to halt hearing into death penalty," is the title of his OpEd in today's Houston Chronicle.  Brandley was exonerated and freed from Texas death row in 1990.  He is a member of Witness to Innocence, a national organization composed of, and assisting, men and women exonerated from capital sentences. When Pat Lykos ran for the office of Harris County District Attorney, she promised that there would be a new day in the criminal justice system. However, she recently proved that she's just another part of the same good ol' boy system that wrongfully sentenced me to death. I spent nine years, five months, and 23 days in prison, most of them on death row waiting for my date with the executioner...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).