{"id":13240,"date":"2012-05-15T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:08:34","slug":"report-wrong-man-executed-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/05\/report-wrong-man-executed-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: wrong man executed in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I have to wonder how many other times this has happened.<\/p>\n

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He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour:\u00a0Carlos DeLuna\u00a0paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.<\/p>\n

Even \u201call the relatives of both Carloses mistook them,\u201d and DeLuna was sentenced to death and executed based only on\u00a0eyewitness accounts\u00a0despite a range of signs he was not a guilty man, said law professor\u00a0James Liebman.<\/p>\n

Liebman and five of his students at\u00a0Columbia School of Law\u00a0spent almost five years poring over details of a case that he says is \u201cemblematic\u201d of legal system failure.<\/p>\n

DeLuna, 27, was put to death after \u201ca very incomplete investigation. No question that the investigation is a failure,\u201d Liebman said.<\/p>\n

The report\u2019s authors found \u201cnumerous missteps, missed clues and missed opportunities that let authorities prosecute Carlos DeLuna for the crime of murder, despite evidence not only that he did not commit the crime but that another individual,\u00a0Carlos Hernandez, did,\u201d the 780-page investigation found.<\/p>\n

The report, entitled \u201cLos Tocayos Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution,\u201d traces the facts surrounding the February 1983 murder of Wanda Lopez, a single mother who was stabbed in the gas station where she worked in a quiet corner of the Texas coastal city of Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything went wrong in this case,\u201d Liebman said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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