They say everything is bigger and better in Texas. I guess that includes the size of the list of people who were wrongly accused of rape and murder in the 1980's, sentenced to prison and left to rot. The only problem is, a lot of these men, mostly African American, are innocent. INNOCENT.
This man, for example. His name is James Lee Woodard. He sat in jail for supposedly murdering his girlfriend. For 27 years. And he was proven innocent using a simple DNA test.
It seems that there was a rogue DA in Dallas in the 1980's who put a bunch of black men behind bars just for the hell of it. If there is a reason to never have a death penalty, the story of James Lee Woodard should stop us all cold and make us realize that innocent people really do get sent to prison. And most of them are black.
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