Think about having anywhere from 10 to nearly 30 years of your life being taken away, because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Being wrongfully accused for a crime you didn’t commit seems to happen more often in Texas! The Dallas Morning News editorial, Dallas News: Innocence Commission, argues this very issue.
The need for an innocence commission was brought up earlier this year at a speech in Austin. In attendance, were nine wrongfully convicted Texans, eight lawmakers, several judges, police officers, legal professionals, and a select Texas public. The author makes it clear that his intended audience is all Texans. He/She cares about this subject and feels as though every Texan should at least know what’s happening, and realize that Texas has the highest number of exonerations, 33, in the United States. The article is written with such passion that it goes as far as to recommend that a Dallas republican should sponsor the bill in order to secure its passage. Houston Senator Rodney Ellis called this gathering to gain support of a state innocence commission and to come up with ways to improve the Texas state conviction system.
I agree with the author of this editorial. I think this is a very important subject and one that the public should be aware of. A state innocence commission that has a stricter conviction process and more rights for those arrested will, I feel, greatly lower the probability of sentencing an innocent person.
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