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Cesar Fierro - an Innocent Man Still On Texas Death Row "gone stark raving mad."Cesar Fierro - an Innocent Man Still On Texas Death Row "gone stark raving mad."Innocent

By "Persian Cowboy"

The Texas Tribune has a database of Texas prisons and prisoners that includes a list of people on Texas death row and where they are housed. 12 death row prisoners are listed as being housed in the Jester IV Psychiatric Unit. One of the 12 is Cesar Fierro, who is one of the people on Texas death row who is mostly likely innocent of the crime for which he has been sentenced to death. Compounding the tragedy of his having been sentenced to death despite his innocence is that being on death row for 30 years has had a devastating impact on his mental health.Read more about Cesar Fierro on this website: http://www.cesarfierro.info/summary.htmThe following is excerpted from: http://www.ushrnetwork.org/files/ushrn/images/linkfiles/NACDL_Statement_to_Committee_3-13-06[2]...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).