Comments on: 60 Minutes on Innocent Men in Jail

By: Rawlins

Rawlins — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:07:43 +0000

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.

By: guilty

guilty — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:08:25 +0000

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.

By: Reader

Reader — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:04:06 +0000

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.

By: TheKid

TheKid — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:25:56 +0000

I know Texas Wesleyan University School of Law is involved. You might try http://law.txwes.edu/Default.aspx

By: HSH

HSH — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:04:01 +0000

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?

By: houston

houston — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:30:38 +0000

too bad Wade’s fat a$$ is not still around to sit in jail for a while.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:37:14 +0000

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.

By: jrp

jrp — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:58:04 +0000

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

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:57:40 +0000

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.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:57:33 +0000

Some of his letters, in beautiful, careful script, appear on the NPR website.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90172724