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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: c.horn who wrote (83278)	6/30/2000 8:54:51 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Sound like you like to toot your own, "horn." Haha... No, I am not a "blowhard," unless you consider people like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Alva Edison, Howard Hughes or Salvador Dali blowhards -- all men who took up unpopular causes because they had more vision than many of the people around them. Perhaps you do consider them blowhards, I cannot account for your taste. Now, there are more than a dozen men who would all be dead at this moment if it was up to the "system." What saved some of them was the extraordinary, independent efforts of a NorthWestern Illinois University journalism professor and some of his students; the others were saved by a high school civics class and their teacher. It started as a "class project." All of these men were truly innocent. None of them were released on technicalities. The system didn't save them, outside help did. Before their efforts, individuals were being executed like clockwork in Illinois (just like in Texas). You can bet that some of them were innocent of the crimes they were convicted of. You see, just because you are convicted doesn't necessarily mean you really are guilty. That same NU professor is attempting to prove the innocence of an individual on Texas's Death Row. If the professor succeeds, I don't think anyone would disagree that without that highly unorthodox foray into the normal system, that the man would most definitely be executed. NU PROF URGES DNA TEST FOR TEXAS INMATE Protess, along with eight students from his investigative journalism class at Northwestern, said they have evidence showing that Skinner's trial was "fatally flawed." "What is frustrating is that the truth can be found if the state of Texas would allow the expenditure of under $10,000 in DNA tests," said Protess, who has been involved in helping exonerate defendants on Death Row in the Ford Heights Four and Anthony Porter cases. chicago.tribune.com.