The DeLuna case is one of the most thoroughly documented of any case in American criminal history. Texas loves executing innocent men.
If you want to see what an evil piece of sh*t looks like, the photo left of former Texas DA John Bradley should suffice.
If one wants a perfect case of an innocent man being executed it is this one: Cameron Todd Willingham
Police and prosecutors would rather have the real killer point to an innocent man and thus a good murder case rather than no case at all.
In 1980 Dianna Green testified that her husband, a white man, raped and brutally beat her. Actually it was this man. Green was mistaken. You just can't trust eyewitness testimony.
Innocent people, once they are executed, are no longer innocent, or so death penalty proponents believe.
We know that Pakistanis do not look exactly alike to other Pakistanis, but to white American eyes people with brown skin, mustache and beard, as many in the photo above, look pretty much alike.
Scientists have found that in cases where we know the defendant was innocent, eyewitness identifications were mistaken 75% of the time.
DNA evidence can be planted by the real criminal or fabricated by the police and contrary to popular belief, DNA profiles are not absolutely unique.
We are not perfect and so when we execute so-called guilty murderers it is a mathematical truth that we also execute innocent people despite indisputable direct evidence from a dozen sources with no connection to the perpetrator or the victim and DNA evidence and admission of crime.
