I'm not sure how much really needs to be said about this. An innocent man was executed as a result of a combination of laziness, ignorance, and general failure of the justice system. Were Carlos DeLuna sentenced to life in prison, he would have a chance today to have his case reviewed and to live the remainder of his life outside of prison walls. But with the death penalty, there is no way to try to correct the mistake. Instead, everyone involved in the case, and we as a society that permits this punishment to continue, has to live with the knowledge that an innocent man was murdered by the state of Texas.
Abolish the death penalty. Don't kill in my name.
"The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death" by Ed Pilkington
Published in the Guardian, May 14, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/15/carlos-texas-innocent-man-death
Eric
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