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Austin Reading of the Play, 'Earnest' - This Saturday

By Steve Hall

Retired Episcopal Bishop Joe Doss presents a public reading of the play this Saturday, March 6.  The reading will be at the Carver Branch Library (1611 Angelina, just one mile east of the Texas Capitol) at 2:00 pm. Bishop Doss has more about "Earnest," at his website. On March 17, 1981, Earnest Knighton, Jr. stepped into a Shreveport convenience store high on speed, armed with a loaded gun and a desire to get money for more drugs.  He shot and killed the storekeeper, Ralph Schell.Three years later a New Orleans priest, Joe Morris Doss (Rector of Grace Episcopal Church), was in charge of finding defense attorneys who would be willing to defend death row inmates on their appeals, pro bono. He approached a successful lawyer & friend, Julian Murray, about taking the case of an inmate named Knighton who had just received a date for his execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 04, 2010 (boomark / email).