60 Minutes on Innocent Men in Jail
I just watched the 60 Minutes story that aired last night about the Innocence Project’s work in Dallas County. James Woodard, who served 27 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, is an amazing man. Warning: before you watch it, have a couple tissues ready.
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Some of his letters, in beautiful, careful script, appear on the NPR website.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90172724
Does anyone know where Henry Wade is buried? I’d like to urinate on his redneck grave. He must have been very poorly endowed to feel compelled to wield power so recklessly. If I were related to him, I would change my name and regard his life as a shameful secret to be withheld from my children. He was a barbarian, a filthy, stinking junkyard dog in a suit, and almost certainly a murderer. Good riddance to repugnant trash.
hear hear and keep preaching, daniel, you’re not alone in that belief
this is far from over and my guess is dozens, if not hundreds, more of unjustly imprisoned men will be vindicated
and other cold cases, such as that one about the SMU co-ed that was killed in ‘84 that the DMN had today, will also be solved
DNA evidence isn’t perfect, but at least it’s helping right some wrongs
My youngest child will be three in June. I could not imagine going to prison for something I didn’t do, then coming out to find him as an adult. That would make me so bitter.
It’s so horrible to think of all — not just the prisoners, but their families — who had to suffer.
Go, Craig.
too bad Wade’s fat a$$ is not still around to sit in jail for a while.
I’d like to know where we could send donations to the Texas Innocence Project (it’s a 501(c(3)) and to these gentlemen to help them out. Anyone know?
I know Texas Wesleyan University School of Law is involved. You might try http://law.txwes.edu/Default.aspx
Here’s the site for the Innocence Project of
Texas. Click on Contribute at the top of the page. http://ipoftexas.org/
You can contribute to the Life After Exoneration Program. I don’t know if contributions can be made directly to individuals.
Before we all get on our high horse, did we vote for Watkins? I’m now thankful he’s in the job but he didn’t get my vote.
If you think being railroaded en route to prison via false ‘witness’, (or used by the system to do same) is not something that can happen to ordinary citizens, think again. Then meet me for a drink.
Meanwhile, ask me about how and why I attended Wade’s funeral and how gleefully I shall sooner or later recount more than one legend-reducing personal story regarding Wade…tales in my Native Dallas arsenal.