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last year texas governor rick perry admitted that he never struggled at all
whether someone his state executed might have been innocent
there's a new book by columbia law professor james leave men which shows
that carlos the luna
executed by texas in nineteen eighty nine
wise
innocent according to lead man and we talked about this of awhile ago
in the earlier stages of this investigation may be on the bonus so i
think it was going to show you uh... carlos the luna
was wrongfully convicted and executed for the *** of wanda lopez following
a botched investigation
diluted and the man believed to have committed the *** of carlos hernandez
looked so much alike that even family members mistook them one for the other
and now we've gotten confirmation that in fact he was executed he was an
innocent man
this really to me
is yet another indication people who say the death penalty is never actually lead
an innocent person being executed what yet hats
yet has an again it's not an effective deterrent if it was state of capital
punishment would've lower crime rates than those without infact it's reverse
kind of the twelve states with capital punishment
at homicide rates uh... a rather ten of the twelve states with no capital
punishment have some of the lowest homicide rates
certainly we can tie and socio-economic matters and issues of of uh... of money
for that but did there is no hard and fast role if that's the case and every
year we are seeing
more and more d_n_a_ variations of people on death row including forty one
of these from two thousand two to twenty eleven
it's time to get rid of the death penalty with even scarier lewis
if carlos the lunar were fetus
he would have been important enough to republicans
the go much further and saving
stu dot he was not in the womb
it really is this case highlights a lot of problems with the with the legal
system but uh... that that is going to go