Dead man talking.A dozen years after Ruben Cantu Ruben Montoya Cantu (December 5, 1966 – August 24, 1993) was a seventeen year old Texan who was executed for a murder that he may not have committed. During the years following the conviction, the surviving victim, the co-defendant, the District Attorney, and the jury was executed by the state of Texas for capital murder, the only witness to Cantu's alleged crime came forward in November to recant his testimony, saying Cantu wasn't even at the scene. "The reality that Texas may have executed an innocent man should shock us all into action," said State Sen. Rodney Ellis Rodney Glenn Ellis[1] (born 7 April 1954)[2] is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate for the 13th District, and co-founder of Apex Securities. He is currently Chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Organization and sits on the Senate Committees on . "If the facts we now have are accurate, this was a catastrophic failure A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure of some system from which recovery is impossible. The affected system not only experiences destruction beyond any reasonable possibility of repair, but also frequently causes injury, death, or significant damage to other, often of the entire Texas criminal justice system and demands investigation." Texas, which has the highest execution rate of any state, killed 2,3 people in 2004 and 19 people in 2005, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Death Penalty Information Center. "Followers of Jesus ought to know instinctively that executions serve the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. of empire," Eric DeBode, director of California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty, told Sojourners. "We do well to remind ourselves every Sunday that Jesus was an innocent person who was executed by the state using exactly these mechanisms." |
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