Texas Court Upholds Death Sentence for Innocent Man

No constitutional grounds, they say, on which to overturn the sentence

With an opinion yesterday from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, ACLU client Max Soffar moves a step closer to an unjust execution.  And, little more than one year after the execution of Troy Davis, our system moves closer to another miscarriage of justice.

Soffar is an innocent man on Texas's death row, who falsely confessed to crimes he didn't commit.  He's been there most of the last 32 years after being convicted of killing three people in a 1980 Houston bowling alley robbery. His conviction was based entirely on false words from his own mouth.