Re: Death penalty
Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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The irreversibility of this particular form of punishment is one of the reasons I'm against it. regards, -Lance -------------------- DNA shows man may have been wrongly executed http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7290205.html By JEFF CARLTON Associated Press © 2010 The Associated PressNov. 11, 2010, 2:50PM DALLAS — A DNA test on a strand of hair that linked a convicted murderer to the crime scene shows it wasn't his — a revelation that strongly suggests the Texas man was wrongly executed under state law. That single strand was the only piece of physical evidence linking career criminal Claude Jones to the 1989 killing of a liquor store owner in Point Blank, Texas. He was executed in December 2000, the last person put to death during George W. Bush's time as governor. A judge would have to make the final decision on whether Jones was wrongly executed. Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project, a New York legal center, acknowledges the hair doesn't prove Jones' innocence but does show there was insufficient evidence to convict and execute him. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot