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Craig Watkins

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"Dallas County DA wants to re-examine nearly all of pending death row cases," is the Dallas Morning News report written by Jennifer Emily and Steve McGonigle.  Here are several excerpts: Troubled that innocent people have been imprisoned by faulty prosecutions, District Attorney Craig Watkins said Monday that he would re-examine nearly 40 death penalty convictions and would seek to halt executions, if necessary, to give the reviews time to proceed. Mr. Watkins told The Dallas Morning News that problems exposed by 19 DNA-based exonerations in Dallas County have convinced him he should ensure that no death row inmate is actually innocent. "It's not saying I'm putting a moratorium on the death penalty," said Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).