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Will Alabama execute an innocent man?

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

This excellent op-ed showed up in my email box this morning (hat tip: Esther Brown)We have the author's permission to post it in its entirety. The author is Mary Shaw, well-known in abolitionist circles, particularly in Pennsylvania. Mary is a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, with a focus on politics, human rights, and social justice. She is a former Philadelphia Area Coordinator for Amnesty International, and her views appear regularly in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and websites. You can visit her own web site here.Will Alabama Execute an Innocent Man?By Mary ShawI have written before about how we've seen more than 200 wrongfully convicted people released from U.S. prisons in recent years after proving their innocence via DNA or other evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on December 27, 2007 (boomark / email).