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Shameful Record of Executions

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That's the title of Bob Ray Sanders' latest column in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Sanders mentions Witness to Innocence, an organization composed of exonerees from death rows, which will hold its annual meeting in Austin this weekend.Here's an excerpt:Imagine being sentenced to 50 years in the state penitentiary. Then consider how you might feel ? what kind of person you might have become ? as you reached the halfway point of your scheduled time in prison, marking off the calendar year 25 of being behind bars. Now, imagine that you were innocent of the crime for which you had been convicted. You might think that it couldn?t get any worse than that, right? Well, picture this: You?re not just in a regular penitentiary cell, but on Death Row and even scheduled to die for a crime you did not commit...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).