Chicago Tribune: EXECUTED TEXAS MAN WAS LIKELY INNOCENT
Posted: June 23, 2006
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A Chicago Tribune investigation set for release this weekend will
reveal groundbreaking evidence that Texas may have executed an innocent
man in 1989. The defendant, Carlos DeLuna, was executed for the fatal
stabbing of Texas convenience store clerk Wanda Lopez in 1983. New
evidence uncovered by reporters Maurice Possley and Steve Mills casts
doubt on DeLuna’s guilt and points towards another man, Carlos
Hernandez, who had a record of similar crimes and repeatedly confessed
to the murder. According to a link on the Chicago Tribune’s Web site
(http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-tx-htmlstory,0,7935000.htmlstory),
a three-part investigative series will start this weekend and conclude
on Tuesday. A news piece scheduled to air tonight on ABC’s “Nightline”
will also cover this emerging story.
It appears that new evidence will cast strong doubt on DeLuna’s guilt. This would be the fourth investigation in the past 2 years pointing to the execution of a probably innocent man. Similar questions have been raised in the cases of Cameron Todd Willingham and Ruben Cantu in Texas, and Larry Griffin in Missouri.
See Innocence.
It appears that new evidence will cast strong doubt on DeLuna’s guilt. This would be the fourth investigation in the past 2 years pointing to the execution of a probably innocent man. Similar questions have been raised in the cases of Cameron Todd Willingham and Ruben Cantu in Texas, and Larry Griffin in Missouri.
See Innocence.
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