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Dallas Morning News on the Anthony Graves Case

By Steve Hall

"Murder conviction chock full of holes," is the title of an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News.For anyone with an interest in prosecutorial misconduct and capital punishment, the October issue of Texas Monthly contains required reading ? a chilling account alleging deceit and abuse in pursuit of a murder conviction. The article, available today, should make even ardent supporters of the death penalty shudder to consider how an egregiously flimsy and unproven case nearly ended the life of Anthony Graves before a federal appeals court intervened and ended his 18-year residence on death row.Even more troubling is that Graves, 45, still sits in jail awaiting a new trial in a 1992 murder case in which six people, including a teenager and four children, were shot, bludgeoned and stabbed to death and their house set afire in Sommerville, near Bryan...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2010 (boomark / email).