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you know it's becoming clearer and clearer and his sons b since lawn
and some really good reporting is becoming clearer by the day
that Texas Governor Rick Perry killed
an innocent man ten years ago
Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham who was convicted in 1992
on arson charges
%uh the complaint was that he had set a 1991 fire
in course can a Texas that killed his three children but now newly uncovered
evidence suggests the William who
maintained his innocence until his death was in fact an innocent man
Williams original conviction relied on two major pieces about vince & Analysis
at the fire by arson investigators
and the testimony a jailhouse informant in the years since Willingham was
executed the
arson investigation that was the key pillar his case has been totally
discredited
questions have been raised over the analysis done by the arson investigators
in the science
it was used in the case it now looks like it was just a tragic house fire
and as for the jailhouse informant who allegedly
overheard willing and confessed to the crime new evidence suggests that
informant was offered a deal by the prosecution in return for his testimony
the judge it earlier denied cutting a deal but now the deal's been found and
it's in the judge's own handwriting
so is looking increasingly more like
Rick Perry executed an innocent man and not just an innocent man
a father who discovered his house on fire and was unable to save his three
daughters
who is grieving and a straw and was then thrown in jail accused of intentionally
burning his own house down to kill his kids
which you'll certainly didn't do it was just a grieving father
who's now been killed by Rick Perry
it's pretty grisly
but even worse is more more proof that the death penalty itself does not
even work to keep people from killing other people proponents the death
penalty say that you know what that Merck
perfect it's a strong deterrent to *** iraq
in fact it's the other way around greater the Death Penalty Information
Center between 1990 and 2010 twenty-year
block a time the *** rate in states that didn't
have the death penalty was consistently lower in the *** rate
in states that do have the death penalty according to a 2009 survey the world's
leading criminologist
eighty-eight percent say that the death penalty does not lower homicide rates
meanwhile according to Amnesty International more than 130 death row
inmates have been released because wrongful convictions since 1973
nm South and albert is one of those 103
now for was arrested 1994 for murdering three people
there was no physical evidence linking him to the murders
and only other evidence put and the only other evidence the police had
was a poor quality video that they said showed up and left Halvor
an hour was ultimately released in 2012 after he was acquitted
acquitted of all charges it turns out the police were wrong
he was innocent but the state of Florida nearly killed him and would have
if newly discovered evidence had led to a new trial but
frankly we shouldn't even need faxer statistics a wrongful conviction stories
to prove that the death penalty is wrong
mean here's the bottom line: as a society when we kill people we become
killers
ourselves week orson our society
we've become accustomed to ***
albeit *** by stated still *** Rick Perry is on the record saying the
Cameron Todd Willingham was a monster
is increasingly looking like Rick Perry is the real monster
not only has he put a likely innocent man to death
is continuing the use of an inhumane an immoral process
that doesn't even meet its own goals
we in america americans have always talked about going all the way back to
to pastor what's his name you know the the
children pastor that we should be a shining city upon a hill
he actually said a city on the hill reagan at a chain to but
but in any case and Kennedy quoted him
not reagan buddy quoted the program minister whose name I can't remember but
anyhow but we
can't possibly be there we can't possibly be seen that way by the world
or even by ourselves if we continue
perpetrating state operated ***
the eyes the world around us we should be leading by example
if we do that we need to get rid of the death penalty once and for all