1 posted on
03/01/2010 2:04:46 PM PST by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Lots of innocent men in prison for rape.
2 posted on
03/01/2010 2:05:54 PM PST by
FormerACLUmember
(The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
To: Dallas59
Hmmmmmmm...that probly won’t cost the State of Texas too much....
3 posted on
03/01/2010 2:06:13 PM PST by
jessduntno
(They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth!)
To: Dallas59
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.
4 posted on
03/01/2010 2:09:43 PM PST by
christianhomeschoolmommaof3
(Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding but in expressing his own heart.)
To: Dallas59
8 posted on
03/01/2010 2:14:58 PM PST by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Dallas59
Poor man. This should never have happened.
9 posted on
03/01/2010 2:16:40 PM PST by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Dallas59
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...
To: Dallas59
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.
11 posted on
03/01/2010 2:24:00 PM PST by
fireman15
(Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
To: Dallas59
If he was wrongly convicted why did he get a pardon? Why didn’t they completely exonerate him?
12 posted on
03/01/2010 2:24:05 PM PST by
pfflier
To: Dallas59
When does the state prosecute the person(s) who wrongly convicted the man?
Is there any consequence for that?
15 posted on
03/01/2010 2:29:26 PM PST by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: Dallas59
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.
17 posted on
03/01/2010 2:35:47 PM PST by
scripter
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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