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The Case of Raymond Riles

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Houston's KPRC-TV reported last night on Raymond Riles, a severely mentally ill Texas death row inmate who is incompetent to be executed.  "Is 30 Years Too Long On Texas Death Row?" His case has sparked a debate of what to do with inmates spending decades waiting for an execution. Local 2 investigative reporter Amy Davis uncovers why Riles' case could change the future of Texas' death row. "They told me they were going to kill me unless I stopped preaching my mystic gospel," Riles told us during an interview from death row at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston. "God is the greatest and I didn't come to die on death row." As Riles speaks, you're almost able to read his mind -- by not understanding it. "They're trying to silence me because I know about the satanic secret societies of the TDC shadow government e-system," said Riles...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).