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The Beatrice Six

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In the middle of the Nebrasa's debate over whether to end a moratorium on executions by abolishing the death penalty or adopt lethal injection, a high visibility exoneration may have an impact on the legislative debate."Pardons granted to five in murder they didn't commit," is the title of Paul Hammel's report in the Omaha World-Herald.Written in frosting, the message on the white sheet cake at a reception Monday read: "Justice for the Beatrice Six."But the impact of exonerating six people wrongly convicted in the 1985 murder of a Beatrice, Neb., woman is likely to reverberate long after the last of the cake was consumed. The State Board of Pardons voted 3-0 Monday to grant pardons to five people who had pleaded either guilty or no contest in connection with the rape-murder of 68-year-old Helen Wilson...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).