Man who confronted Hillary on death penalty spent 39 years in prison on wrongful conviction
An innocent man who spent 39 years in prison asked Hillary Clinton a pointed question about the death penalty at CNN's Town Hall in Ohio on Sunday night.
The man, Ricky Jackson, was convicted along with his friends, Ronnie and Wiley Bridgeman, of murdering Harold Franks in Cleveland, Ohio in 1975.
Jackson directly confronted Clinton about her stance on capital punishment. Clinton has historically been in favor of the death penalty with some limitations.
"I would like to know how can you still take your stance on the death penalty, in light of what you know right now?" Jackson asked.
Clinton called his inquiry "a profoundly difficult question."
Jackson entered prison as an 18-year-old and was released in 2014 at age 57. He was initially sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1977, just two months shy of his execution date. He was saved by a mistake the court made filling out his paperwork, according to CNN.
Jackson holds the tragic distinction of spending the longest time ever incarcerated on a wrongful conviction, according to The Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was shifted around from prison to prison, with his security level reduced each time, reports The Christian Science Monitor.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/heartbreaking-story-man-asked-hillary-212203236.html
And yet another reason I have a problem voting for Hillary. She favors capital punishment. I guess the polls haven't told her she should "evolve" on this issue yet.
An innocent man was 2 months away from being executed and saved only because of a filing error, and he wants to know why Hillary still supports the death penalty, and her response is, "That's a profoundly difficult question."
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