[FormerACLUmember]

Lots of innocent men in prison for rape.

[jessduntno]

Hmmmmmmm...that probly won’t cost the State of Texas too much....

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

That is so sad! I wish our justice system was well more just. People that are truly guilty sometimes walk away with little punishment or walk altogether on a technicality and then this.

[Dallas59]

CNN story

[trisham]

Poor man. This should never have happened.

[a fool in paradise]

I thought the meme was that the death penalty was wrong because we might execute an innocent man. That we needed life in prison without parole instead because that would be more humane to let a man die in prison...

[fireman15]

There is quite a bit of other information out there about this situation. The guy was framed by a group of over zealous police officers and detectives. The actual rapist sent numerous confession letters to the authorities during a period of over ten years while the innocent man was still alive. The letters were ignored. It was not until the guilty man directly contacted Tim Cole’s mother that the family got an attorney to force the DNA testing that proved his innocence.

[pfflier]

If he was wrongly convicted why did he get a pardon? Why didn’t they completely exonerate him?

[TChris]

When does the state prosecute the person(s) who wrongly convicted the man?

Is there any consequence for that?

[scripter]

Every time I read a story like this it makes my blood boil. For I, too, was found guilty (in 1982) for a crime I didn't commit. It does happen... here it is decades later and reading similar stories continues to make my blood boil.

Still, the older I get the less painful it gets.

But dying in prison for a crime you didn't commit. There should be hell to pay.