Back at the beginning of May, news broke that a Virginia jury had awarded $2.25 million to a man who was wrongfully convicted of a heinous crime and came within nine days of being executed for that crime.
DNA evidence cleared him and tied a convicted rapist to the 1982 murder.
This is no poster boy for the anti-death penalty movement, but it again calls into question a system that rends an ultimate solution before all the evidence is properly looked at and new technology is brought to bear on questionable evidence. In the case of Earl Washington, the evidence itself was fabricated. He spent nearly ten years on death row.
How many more cases like this are out there?
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