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The Exonerated

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That's the title of Texas Monthly Senior Editor Michael Hall's report in the November TM.  The subtitle is, "These 37 men spent 525 years in prison for crimes they didn?t commit. Then came the hard part: freedom."Here's an excerpt from the introduction.  The article then profiles the 37 exonerees.The first thing you notice is the eyes?they all have the same look in them, the look of men accustomed to waking up every morning in a prison cell. These 37 men spent years, and in some cases decades, staring through bars at a world that believed they were guilty of terrible crimes. But they weren?t. Each was convicted of doing something he did not do. It?s hard to characterize the look in their eyes. There?s anger, obviously, and pride at having survived hell, but there?s also hurt, and a question: ?Why me?? The short answer is simple: People make mistakes...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).