Comments on: DID TEXAS EXECUTE AN INNOCENT MAN?

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:55:09 +0000

Tell it like it is Kerry Max Cook! From the first time we met you we could tell that you will be carrying this for the rest of your life and hope your journey will help others!

Roger

America’s Wrongfully Convicted

By: Billy Sinclair

Billy Sinclair — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:15:22 +0000

Kerry – thanks for your comment, and I hope your book is doing well. It was an insightful read. You are a soldier in the cause and earned your stripes. Below is a link you may want to check out about the 2009 Texas Legislature, and its changes relating to the wrongfully convicted.
http://www.johntfloyd.com/comments/september09/17.htm

By: Kerry Max Cook

Kerry Max Cook — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:25:39 +0000

Having been convicted and sent to death row to die for 22 years for a crime I didn’t commit (see my book, CHASING JUSTICE), the case styled Cook v. State is said to be the worst example of documented police & prosecutoiral misconduct in Texas history. As John Grisham said in reviewing my book, it was so bad, “If it were fiction, no one would believe it.”

DNA subsequently helped prove my innocence, but had I been strapped to the gurney, like Todd Cameron Willingham, the only who who would have been listening to my protestations of innocence were me.,

The only reason I didn’t make it that long was 22 years of fighting and outside intervention.

It’s time to make the Texas Board of Pardon & Paroles more accountable them from their homes and a fax machine hearing these last pleas of innocence, and much like former Texas Attorney General Alberto Gonzales did, rubber -stamp the condemned into the grave.

The innocent in Texas no there is no justice — “just-us.”

Kerry Max Cook

By: Scott Cobb

Scott Cobb — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:03:25 +0000

For everyone who is concerned that Texas has executed a person who was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, please join us in Austin at the Texas Capitol on October 24, 2009 for the 10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty.

http://marchforabolition.org

At the 7th Annual March in 2006, the family of Todd Willingham attended and delivered a letter to Governor Perry that said in part:

“We are the family of Cameron Todd Willingham. Our names are Eugenia Willingham, Trina Willingham Quinton and Joshua Easley. Todd was an innocent person executed by Texas on February 17, 2004. We have come to Austin today from Ardmore, Oklahoma to stand outside the Texas Governor’s Mansion and attempt to deliver this letter to you in person, because we want to make sure that you know about Todd’s innocence and to urge you to stop executions in Texas and determine why innocent people are being executed in Texas.”

“Please ensure that no other family suffers the tragedy of seeing one of their loved ones wrongfully executed. Please enact a moratorium on executions and create a special blue ribbon commission to study the administration of the death penalty in Texas. Texas also needs a statewide Office of Public Defenders for Capital Cases. Such an office will go a long way towards preventing innocent people from being executed. A moratorium will ensure that no other innocent people are executed while the system is being studied and reforms implemented.”

Perry never responded to the Willingham family’s letter.