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Witness to Innocence

By Steve Hall

That's the name of the Philadelphia-based organization composed of death row exonerees that works to assist exonerees after winning their freedom. It's also the title of a post at Huffington Post by Chicago attorney Andrea Lyon, who spoke at the group's annual meeting. Last Sunday, I had the privilege of being asked to talk to a group of exonerees from death row at the end of a conference held here in Chicago by an organization called Witness to Innocence . I spoke about the state of the death penalty here in Illinois and around the country and about the stacked deck that a death-qualified jury poses for someone accused of murder -- something that I have written about before. In my book about my experiences as a capital defense lawyer, I tell the stories of some my clients over the years, both the innocent and guilty, to show their human faces and tell their (and my) all-too-human stories...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).