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cali

(114,904 posts)
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 01:21 PM Aug 2016

In Texas, a man who didn’t kill anybody is about to be executed for murder

Terri Been’s voice shook as she read a long text message from her niece.

“I had a nightmare about my dad last night,” Paige Rowan told her aunt in the text.

Rowan described a dream in which she watched helplessly as the execution needle pierced her father’s skin.

She woke up screaming, panicking and feeling hopeless, she told Been.

Then, she said, she dropped to her knees and prayed.

“Please don’t allow this to happen,” Rowan wrote. “Don’t take my father away.”

Been struggled to finish reading the text message, her voice breaking as she paused several times to regain her composure during an interview with The Washington Post.

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In Texas, a man who didn’t kill anybody is about to be executed for murder (Original Post) cali Aug 2016 OP
From the Kenendy killer state, what else can you expect. Dawson Leery Aug 2016 #1
innocence not enough for scalia. pansypoo53219 Aug 2016 #2
This guy is not innocent Egnever Aug 2016 #3
He is innocent of murder cali Aug 2016 #4
but certainly an accessory to murder Egnever Aug 2016 #5
An accessory was executed in MO in 2009 loyalsister Aug 2016 #6
 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
3. This guy is not innocent
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 03:46 PM
Aug 2016

His crime doesn't rise anywhere near the level of death penalty but he is not innocent.

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