Post by WaTcHeR on Dec 1, 2005 23:47:38 GMT -5
If the Government and police wants you dead it's really not that hard, because they are the Government!
Ruben Cantu, 17 at the time of his crime, had no previous convictions, but a San Antonio Texas prosecutor had branded him a violent thief, gang member.
"My name is Ruben M. Cantu and I am only 18 years old. I got to the 9th grade and I have been framed in a capital murder case."
After his last request for bubble gum had been refused and his final claim of innocence had been forever silenced.
Cantu's death sentence for a 1984 murder in San Antonio was based primarily on faulty identification given under intense police pressure.
>>>> Intense police pressure, imagine that!
And the lone eyewitness, the man who survived the shooting, has recanted. He told a newspaper he's sure that the person who shot him was not Cantu, but he felt pressured by police to identify the boy as the killer. Juan Moreno, an illegal immigrant at the time of the shooting, said his damning in-court identification was based on his fear of authorities and police interest in Cantu.
Cantu "was innocent. It was a case of an innocent person being killed."
Sam Millsap Jr., the former Bexar County district attorney who made the decision to charge Cantu with capital murder, says he never should have sought the death penalty in a case based on the testimony of an eyewitness who identified Cantu only after police officers showed him Cantu's photo three separate times.
>>>>Little too late now don't you think Mr. Millsap Jr.? I'm sure you still sleep well at night.
No physical evidence - Police reports have unexplained omissions and irregularities. Witnesses who could have provided an alibi for Cantu that night were never interviewed. And no physical evidence — not even a fingerprint or a bullet — tied Cantu to the crime.
Worse, some think Cantu's arrest was instigated by police officers because Cantu shot and wounded an off-duty officer during an unrelated bar fight. That case against Cantu was dropped in part because officers overreacted and apparently tainted the evidence, according to records and interviews.
During eight years on death row, Cantu repeatedly insisted he was innocent of murder. In 1987, he wrote to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, saying: "I was tried and convicted on bogus evidence."
But on the day he finally was strapped to a Gurney and readied for a lethal injection, Cantu said nothing as his attorney watched him die through a special one-way viewing window.
The San Antonio district attorney who has promised to vigorously investigate the innocence claim of Ruben Cantu was herself a player in the case well before his 1993 execution.
During her days as a Bexar County judge, Susan Reed rejected Cantu's death-sentence appeal in 1988 and later set his execution date, records show.
>>>> That's right, lets let the devil investigate his/her wrong doings, what a brilliant plan. The above story was clippings of 3 different stories from the last 8 years or so. If you would like more information do a "Google" search for Ruben Cantu. "current story"
Don't think for a moment that Ruben Cantu was the first innocent person to be executed, many innocent people have been killed by our Government. A lot of times it's due to crooked cops and dirty District Attorneys. If they want you convicted and dead, it's not that hard. Specially when you have a court appointed attorney representing you. When you can't afford a good attorney for your trial or appeals, you pretty well signed your death certificate by getting a court appointed attorney.
Ruben Cantu, 17 at the time of his crime, had no previous convictions, but a San Antonio Texas prosecutor had branded him a violent thief, gang member.
"My name is Ruben M. Cantu and I am only 18 years old. I got to the 9th grade and I have been framed in a capital murder case."
After his last request for bubble gum had been refused and his final claim of innocence had been forever silenced.
Cantu's death sentence for a 1984 murder in San Antonio was based primarily on faulty identification given under intense police pressure.
>>>> Intense police pressure, imagine that!
And the lone eyewitness, the man who survived the shooting, has recanted. He told a newspaper he's sure that the person who shot him was not Cantu, but he felt pressured by police to identify the boy as the killer. Juan Moreno, an illegal immigrant at the time of the shooting, said his damning in-court identification was based on his fear of authorities and police interest in Cantu.
Cantu "was innocent. It was a case of an innocent person being killed."
Sam Millsap Jr., the former Bexar County district attorney who made the decision to charge Cantu with capital murder, says he never should have sought the death penalty in a case based on the testimony of an eyewitness who identified Cantu only after police officers showed him Cantu's photo three separate times.
>>>>Little too late now don't you think Mr. Millsap Jr.? I'm sure you still sleep well at night.
No physical evidence - Police reports have unexplained omissions and irregularities. Witnesses who could have provided an alibi for Cantu that night were never interviewed. And no physical evidence — not even a fingerprint or a bullet — tied Cantu to the crime.
Worse, some think Cantu's arrest was instigated by police officers because Cantu shot and wounded an off-duty officer during an unrelated bar fight. That case against Cantu was dropped in part because officers overreacted and apparently tainted the evidence, according to records and interviews.
During eight years on death row, Cantu repeatedly insisted he was innocent of murder. In 1987, he wrote to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, saying: "I was tried and convicted on bogus evidence."
But on the day he finally was strapped to a Gurney and readied for a lethal injection, Cantu said nothing as his attorney watched him die through a special one-way viewing window.
The San Antonio district attorney who has promised to vigorously investigate the innocence claim of Ruben Cantu was herself a player in the case well before his 1993 execution.
During her days as a Bexar County judge, Susan Reed rejected Cantu's death-sentence appeal in 1988 and later set his execution date, records show.
>>>> That's right, lets let the devil investigate his/her wrong doings, what a brilliant plan. The above story was clippings of 3 different stories from the last 8 years or so. If you would like more information do a "Google" search for Ruben Cantu. "current story"
Don't think for a moment that Ruben Cantu was the first innocent person to be executed, many innocent people have been killed by our Government. A lot of times it's due to crooked cops and dirty District Attorneys. If they want you convicted and dead, it's not that hard. Specially when you have a court appointed attorney representing you. When you can't afford a good attorney for your trial or appeals, you pretty well signed your death certificate by getting a court appointed attorney.
