Wednesday, March 02, 2011

The Someone You're Not


Our packed prisons are starting to disgorge hundreds of mostly African-America men who, over the last few decades, we wrongly convicted of violent crimes. This is what it's like to spend nearly thirty years in prison for something you didn't do. This is what it's like to spend nearly thirty years as someone you aren't. And for Ray Towler, this is what it's like to be free.
It's a sad story and this is why I don't believe in capital punishment.
Read it here - Via Kottke

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