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Today's Arizona Republic has Ray Krone's OpEd, "High court should rethink executions, not just means." The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing arguments heard recently in Baze vs. Rees, which challenges the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. While the court wrestles with technical issues concerning the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, there's a much larger reason our country is rethinking the death penalty: the possibility of sentencing to death and executing an innocent human being. Unlike almost any American, I speak from experience. I spent more than 10 years in Arizona prisons for a crime I didn't commit, including nearly three years on death row. In 1992, I was sentenced to death for killing a Phoenix bartender, even though I was at home, asleep, when the murder was committed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).