Columbia Law School probe concludes another innocent man was executed in Texas
Carlos Deluna
His name was Carlos Deluna. Put to death in 1989 for the murder of Wanda Lopez in Corpus Christi.
He maintained his innocence. He even maintained he knew who really killed Lopez.
Now, a book, authored by six investigators from Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Law Review, raises questions about whether Deluna really did it. And it also raises questions about capital punishment in Texas.
It’s not the first time the Texas death penalty has come under scrutiny. Cameron Todd Willingham was put to death by the Lone Star State in 2004. David Grann of the New Yorker investigated that execution. His reporting concluded that Willingham probably was not responsible for the fire that killed his three young children in their Corsicana, Texas home.
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Posted by Gary
on May 15 2012. Filed under Breaking News, Crime, Human Rights, Law, Top stories, US.
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Barry Scheck The attorney has help free allot of wrongly convicted people but makes you wonder how many have been wrongly convicted.
i am aware that the death penalty can be misused i would only use the death penalty if caught with a smoking gun we have had to many inocents exucated now with dna theres more safety
I did read your hyperlinks, and listened to the voice tapes of the people close to the accused and killer. The one thing I DO find fascinating is the several references in and to DeLuna and Hernandez being “tocayos”.
I see absolutely ZERO resemblence between the 2 men in the LEAST. However,probably the most relavant bit of evidence/info in the slide show is the fact that there was a footprint in the blood of the victem, but none on the shoes or person of DeLuna.
Almost sounds like some more shoddy police work… quite possibly by Olivia Escobedo standing on evidence in her shabby boots and long skirt, but hey.. it was February in Corpus Christi.. who wants to be out on crime scene in the cold??? ( GRRRRRRR)