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Texas just executed an old man who had been on death row for 30 years, despite substantial doubt about his case. I read earlier reports on this guy; seems unlikely that a gainfully employed, married father of two with no criminal history would murder four men execution style in a botched robbery.
The prosecution essentially lied when making their case, claiming the ammunition used in the killings was rare (it was not), and hid evidence that Bower had left his business card with the men when he earlier bought an airplane from them. And since then, a number of witnesses came forward claiming the killings were a drug deal gone bad, and they knew who the killers were.
But... there's no second-guessing justice in Texas.
"As regular readers may recall, Scalia specifically pointed to a convicted killer named Henry Lee McCollum as an obvious example of a man who deserved to be put to death. ?For example, the case of an 11-year-old girl raped by four men and then killed by stuffing her panties down her throat,? Scalia wrote in a 1994 ruling. ?How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection compared with that!?
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If this story sounds at all familiar, it was last fall when a judge ordered the men released. The confessions appeared to have been coerced 30 years ago and new DNA evidence implicated another man whose possible involvement had been overlooked at the time."
This would not be the first time Scalia was wrong about something, but it could be the first time he admits it. Not holding my breath waiting for that......
If this story sounds at all familiar, it was last fall when a judge ordered the men released. The confessions appeared to have been coerced 30 years ago and new DNA evidence implicated another man whose possible involvement had been overlooked at the time."
Texas just executed an old man who had been on death row for 30 years, despite substantial doubt about his case. I read earlier reports on this guy; seems unlikely that a gainfully employed, married father of two with no criminal history would murder four men execution style in a botched robbery.
The prosecution essentially lied when making their case, claiming the ammunition used in the killings was rare (it was not), and hid evidence that Bower had left his business card with the men when he earlier bought an airplane from them. And since then, a number of witnesses came forward claiming the killings were a drug deal gone bad, and they knew who the killers were.
But... there's no second-guessing justice in Texas.
