Friday Reads

 This is why countries shouldn't have the death penalty.  This is unspeakable.

For 22 years, Ledell Lee maintained that he had been wrongly convicted of murder. 

 “My dying words will always be, as it has been, ‘I am an innocent man,’” he told the BBC in an interview published on April 19, 2017 — the day before officials in Arkansas administered the lethal injection.

Four years later, lawyers affiliated with the Innocence Project and the American Civil Liberties Union say DNA testing has revealed that genetic material on the murder weapon — which was never previously tested — in fact belongs to another man. In a highly unusual development for a case in which a person has already been convicted and executed, the new genetic profile has been uploaded to a national criminal database in an attempt to identify the mystery man.

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Kara Dansky is absolutely correct, but of course, what she and others defending women's rights are up against are truly mentally ill, if not sexually aberrant, people.

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Good on Texas