Odell Barnes Jr.

L'association Lutte Pour la Justice (LPJ) a été créée en 1999 pour soutenir Odell Barnes Jr., jeune afro-américain condamné à mort en 1991 à Huntsville (Texas) pour un crime qu'il n'avait pas commis et exécuté le 1er mars 2000 à l'aube de ses 32 ans. En sa mémoire et à sa demande, l'association se consacre à la lutte pour l'abolition de la peine de mort aux Etats-Unis et en particulier au Texas. (voir article "Livre "La machine à tuer" de Colette Berthès en libre accès" ) : https://www.lagbd.org/images/5/50/MATlivre.pdf

vendredi 29 avril 2011

Wrongly convicted

The true story of a man - Charles Raby -who became convinced he had comitted a murder that he confessed, but at some point he didn't believe his own confession, fast forward to 2002 the lab that conducted blood typing tests on the DNA at the crime scene became involved in a scandal, then so did the judge, and many more involved in his trial. In 2005 he had sophisticated testing done, found out that his case was part of the scandal, and the results revealed he was not the killer, yet still he sits on death row, due to a false confession

http://youtu.be/QuJHQiTVTVI

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