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In the Rearview Mirror, Oklahoma and Death Row

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Dan Barry's article in today's New York Times.  It's datelined Montgomery, Alabama. It's a searing must-read following a long trail of ineffective representation and its aftermath. LINK You can never come back, ever. If you plead guilty to that long-ago murder in Oklahoma City, you will be released from prison, where you have spent most of the last 27 years on death row. But once free, you will be banished from Oklahoma. O.K.? O.K., said James Fisher, trading his black-and-white-striped prison top for a blue-and-white-striped dress shirt. Then, without shackles or escort, he stepped into the late afternoon of a state that once wanted him dead and now just wanted him gone. First, though, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).