Alabama death row inmate to be freed after nearly 30 years

[John Marston]

An Alabama inmate who spent nearly 30 years on death row will go free Friday after prosecutors told a judge there is not enough evidence to link him to the 1985 murders he was convicted of committing
Alabama death row inmate to be freed after nearly 30 years - The Washington Post

List of exonerated death row inmates replenishes quite frequently.
The jury is to find a defendant guilty ONLY if there is no reasonable doubt raised. Shouldn't the jurors be penalized for their ignorance causing an innocent person to spend most of their life on death row?
Since there is no accountability visable to the public, it will continue on as is with possibly slight modification.

Innocence and the Death Penalty

And several latest exonerated cases
Glenn Ford on death row in Louisiana for 30 years walks free - CNN.com
Death row inmates wrongly convicted of Cleveland murder in 1975 walk free Daily Mail Online
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/02/death-row-inmate-goes-free/22757265/

 

[JakeStarkey]

All executions need to be put on hold while every conviction is gone over from top to bottom. If the prosecution is show to have engaged in willful and criminal behavior prejudicial to the accused, the folks needs to be prosecuted.

 

[Politico]

He was freed on a technicality. Don't confuse this with innocence.

 

[JoeB131]

He was freed on a technicality. Don't confuse this with innocence.

You mean that he didn't actually DO IT?

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Laura Petro on Thursday dismissed the case against Anthony Ray Hinton at the request of the district attorney’s office. Prosecutors said forensic experts couldn’t determine whether six crime scene bullets — which were the crux of the evidence against Hinton — came from a gun investigators took from his home.

“He was a poor person who was convicted because he didn’t have the money to prove his innocence at trial. He was unable to get the legal help he needed for years. He was convicted based on bad science,” Stevenson said.


John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason were killed during robberies at Mrs. Winner’s and Captain D’s restaurants in Birmingham in 1985. Investigators focused on Hinton after a person who was shot, but survived, at a third robbery at a Quincy’s restaurant identified Hinton as the person who shot him. However, Stevenson said Hinton had an alibi showing that he was at work when the Quincy’s robbery was committed.

 

[Sonny Clark]

An Alabama inmate who spent nearly 30 years on death row will go free Friday after prosecutors told a judge there is not enough evidence to link him to the 1985 murders he was convicted of committing
Alabama death row inmate to be freed after nearly 30 years - The Washington Post

List of exonerated death row inmates replenishes quite frequently.
The jury is to find a defendant guilty ONLY if there is no reasonable doubt raised. Shouldn't the jurors be penalized for their ignorance causing an innocent person to spend most of their life on death row?
Since there is no accountability visable to the public, it will continue on as is with possibly slight modification.

Innocence and the Death Penalty

And several latest exonerated cases
Glenn Ford on death row in Louisiana for 30 years walks free - CNN.com
Death row inmates wrongly convicted of Cleveland murder in 1975 walk free Daily Mail Online
Death row inmate freed after two decades in prison

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[Politico]

He was freed on a technicality. Don't confuse this with innocence.

You mean that he didn't actually DO IT?

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Laura Petro on Thursday dismissed the case against Anthony Ray Hinton at the request of the district attorney’s office. Prosecutors said forensic experts couldn’t determine whether six crime scene bullets — which were the crux of the evidence against Hinton — came from a gun investigators took from his home.

“He was a poor person who was convicted because he didn’t have the money to prove his innocence at trial. He was unable to get the legal help he needed for years. He was convicted based on bad science,” Stevenson said.


John Davidson and Thomas Wayne Vason were killed during robberies at Mrs. Winner’s and Captain D’s restaurants in Birmingham in 1985. Investigators focused on Hinton after a person who was shot, but survived, at a third robbery at a Quincy’s restaurant identified Hinton as the person who shot him. However, Stevenson said Hinton had an alibi showing that he was at work when the Quincy’s robbery was committed.

No I mean it was a technicality. Keep up.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Yeah, an airtight alibi is a "technicality".

Boy, you are dumb as rat shit.

 

[JoeB131]

No I mean it was a technicality. Keep up.

I guess not being able to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt IS a technicality. LIke his gun didn't fire the bullets and someone else said he was at work at the time. You know, those technicalities.

 

[Katzndogz]

The technicality was that it could not be determined that his gun fired the bullets. If it was determined as a fact that his gun definitely did not fire the bullets that would not be a technicality.

 

[hangover]

This was the sixth black given the death penalty for something he didn't do. Any whites given the death penalty for the same reason? Nope. And the GOP says the confederacy is dead in the south. Yeah sure.

 

[Politico]

No I mean it was a technicality. Keep up.

I guess not being able to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt IS a technicality. LIke his gun didn't fire the bullets and someone else said he was at work at the time. You know, those technicalities.

Yes that is a technicality.

 

[JoeB131]

Yes, innocence is a technicality.

 

[Politico]

No a technicality is a technicality.

 

[Moonglow]

This was the sixth black given the death penalty for something he didn't do. Any whites given the death penalty for the same reason? Nope. And the GOP says the confederacy is dead in the south. Yeah sure.

used to be done to indians but after the Casino money came in they left them alone...

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Swell. Nothing like setting free someone who's been traumatized on death row for most of his life. How could that go wrong?