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Nye Bevan

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3. Fuck. Someone was *executed* based on the testimony of a jailhouse informant?

Reply to PumpkinAle (Original post)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 04:47 PM

Feb 2014

I cannot even express my disgust over this. Just abolish the death penalty and be done with it, as almost all the rest of the enightened world has done.

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Evidence of Concealed Jailhouse Deal Raises Questions About a Texas Execution [View all] PumpkinAle Feb 2014 OP

A few more comments appear at the following thread: John1956PA Feb 2014 #1

send the prosecutor to death row. Ilsa Feb 2014 #2

Fuck. Someone was *executed* based on the testimony of a jailhouse informant? Nye Bevan Feb 2014 #3

12 years from his conviction until his execution. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2014 #4

^ Wilms Feb 2014 #5