Jason Zanon wrote:
> Wasn't Tafero's accomplice later proven to be innocent and released,
> once
> they found the real killer?
>
> ---
>
> Yes. He was convicted with his partner Sonia Jacobs, who walked in 1992
> and was at the well-publicized Wrongful Convictions & the Death Penalty
> conference in Chicago last year. She doesn't make the official list of
> innocent people (which now numbers 80, vs. 559 executions) because to
> get out she accepted a plea bargain. But Tafero's case is widely
> regarded as the single most certain instance in recent years of an
> innocent person being executed.
>
> BTW, Sonia got out because an outside filmmaker got interested in the
> case and dug up the information. It wasn't a case of the system
> working; it's a total fluke that she's alive today.
>
> See: http://www.essential.org/dpic/dpicrecinnoc.html
>
> Jason
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