DAVIES: Detective Wharton is now retired, and he traded in his badge for a Bible. Now, the Reverend Wharton says he and the entire system made a mistake. He says he’s forever haunted by his role in putting an innocent man on death row, a man he says should be exonerated.
Even the detective think that isn’t what happened.
Even the detective think that isn’t what happened.
Not so sure it’s so clear and cut.
If you want to argue against the death penalty, go ahead. I lean against it; you don’t have to convince me.
But we do a disservice to every actual innocent convict when we pretend a guilty man is innocent just to avoid a sentence we abhor.
If you want to explain the myriad serious head injuries in some way that absolves him of responsibility, I’m listening.