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Anthony Graves Exoneration - Additional Coverage

By Steve Hall

This morning's Houston Chronicle has expanded coverage in, "Prisoner ordered free from Texas' death row," by Brian Rogers. After 18 years of incarceration and countless protestations of innocence, Anthony Graves finally got a nod of approval from the one person who mattered Wednesday and at last returned home ? free from charges that he participated in the butchery of a family in Somerville he did not know and free of the possibility that he would have to answer for them with his life. The district attorney for Washington and Burleson counties, Bill Parham, gave Graves his release. The prosecutor filed a motion to dismiss charges that had sent Graves to Texas' death row for most of his adult life. Graves returned to his mother's home in Brenham no longer the "cold-blooded killer," so characterized by the prosecutor who first tried him, but as another exonerated inmate who even in the joy of redemption will face the daunting prospect of reassembling the pieces of a shattered life...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).