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Let's start with Charles Terrell's letter to the editor, "Take pains to spare innocent," in response to a Morning News editorial.  Terrell is the former Chair of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  When the state's new death row facility was built and to be named for him, Terrell asked that his name be removed.I join you in thanking and congratulating state Sen. Royce West and Sen. Rodney Ellis for their leadership in helping innocent people who may have spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit, and for establishing an innocence commission to lessen the chances of an innocent person being sent to prison -- or worse, to death row. If our district attorney, Craig Watkins, has already brought about the exoneration of 19 innocent men from just the Dallas area, how many more innocent are among the hundreds on death row? How do we expect previously incarcerated people to succeed without help? We get 500 of them monthly returning to Dallas to look for jobs and housing...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).