Agorism
05-17-2012, 01:50 PM
Report: Texas Executed The Wrong Man Because He Looked Like The Real Murderer
Report: Texas Executed The Wrong Man Because He Looked Like The Real Murderer (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/16/485019/texas-executed-the-wrong-man-because-he-looked-like-the-real-murderer)
Last year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) admitted that he “never struggled . . . at all” with whether someone his state executed might have been innocent. Yet a new book written by Columbia Law Professor James Liebman shows that Carlos DeLuna, executed by Texas in 1989, was innocent. According to Liebman, DeLuna was wrongfully convicted and executed for the murder of Wanda Lopez following a botched investigation. DeLuna and the man believed to have committed the murder, Carlos Hernandez, looked so much alike that they were mistaken for each other in photographs by family members.
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Report: Texas Executed The Wrong Man Because He Looked Like The Real Murderer (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/16/485019/texas-executed-the-wrong-man-because-he-looked-like-the-real-murderer)
Last year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) admitted that he “never struggled . . . at all” with whether someone his state executed might have been innocent. Yet a new book written by Columbia Law Professor James Liebman shows that Carlos DeLuna, executed by Texas in 1989, was innocent. According to Liebman, DeLuna was wrongfully convicted and executed for the murder of Wanda Lopez following a botched investigation. DeLuna and the man believed to have committed the murder, Carlos Hernandez, looked so much alike that they were mistaken for each other in photographs by family members.
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