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From New Hampshire - Coverage of Study Commission Hearing

By Steve Hall

Friday's issue of the Keene Sentinel carried the OpEd, "A story for N.H. from death row,"by Juan Roberto Meléndez-Colón.I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised on the island of Puerto Rico. I came to the United States as a young man to try to make a better life for myself, in search of American dream. Instead, I lived the American nightmare.In 1984, I was convicted and sentenced to death in Florida for a crime I did not commit. It was a brutal crime, a robbery and murder of a white man ? Delbert Baker. He was known as ?Mr. Del.? He was shot three times and his throat was slashed. The crime scene was drenched in blood. There was a rush to find someone accountable for this horrendous crime and in that rush, the rules were broken...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).