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Perry Signs Posthumous Pardon for Tim Cole

By Steve Hall

"Perry grants state's first posthumous pardon," is the title of Betsy Blaney's AP report, via the Austin American-Statesman.Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Monday pardoned a man who died in prison after serving more than 13 years for a wrongful rape conviction.Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to Tim Cole in Austin after receiving a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.Cole was convicted of a 1985 rape of a Texas Tech University student in Lubbock. The Army veteran was cleared by DNA evidence in 2008, nine years after he died in prison of complications from asthma at age 39."I am so happy," Ruby Session, Cole's mother, said from her Burleson home. "I just know that Tim is up there smiling...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 02, 2010 (boomark / email).