HOUSTON -- A decade after Ruben Cantu was executed for capital murder, the only witness to the crime is recanting and his co-defendant says Cantu, then 17, was not even with him that night.
The victim was shot nine times with a rifle during an attempted robbery before the gunman shot the only witness.
That witness, Juan Moreno, told the Houston Chronicle for its Sunday editions that Cantu was not the killer. Moreno said he identified him at the 1985 trial because he felt pressured and feared authorities.
Cantu, who had maintained his innocence, was executed on Aug. 24, 1993, at age 26. "Texas murdered an innocent person," co-defendant David Garza said.
Sam D. Millsap Jr., the district attorney who handled the case, said he never should have sought the death penalty in a case based on testimony from a witness who identified a suspect only after police showed him a photo three times.
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How about the guy who was shot?mvscal wrote:Well if a convicted murderer says he's innocent it must be true.
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So you are sure he is guilty despite the fact that there are now no witnesses that he committed the crime and the prosecuting attorney think s that it was a mistake?
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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No, I think he's guilty because not only is his accomplice a lying sack of shit, he waited 10 years too fucking long to think up an alternate set of lies that he thinks might get him out of jail.See You Next Wednesday wrote:So you are sure he is guilty despite the fact that there are now no witnesses that he committed the crime and the prosecuting attorney think s that it was a mistake?
Having a dumb fuck like you take up his cause isn't exactly a positive factor in his favor either
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