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February 01, 2006
A Death Row Inmate Who Shouldn't Be There
Remember Tookie Williams, the murderer and former crip gang member whose execution triggered all sorts of protests and media coverage? Odd that anti-death penalty activists chose his case as a cause celebre, while Cory Maye sits on death row in relative obscurity.
Cory Maye -- in case you haven't been following Radley Balko -- is a black man with no criminal record condemned to death in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, for shooting a police officer who broke down his door in the middle of the night looking for a drug stash that wasn't there.Imagine how you'd react if someone stormed into your house in the middle of the night, waking you from a dead sleep. In short, all available information suggests this man shouldn't be on death row.
As Instapundit notes today, the outcome should have been the same as in this case.
Posted by Conor at February 1, 2006 07:33 PM
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This is a very interesting case indeed. One would think that it would garner attention like the tookie williams 'fiasco' (gee ask me how i feel about that). But the public is only interesting in helping someone if the scenario is adequate in progressing one of its own agendas. Tookie Williams had supposed significance because of his background, the people he knew, and his 'rehabilitation' (and prolonged claims to innocence). But this man's case, although extraordinary, doesnt seem spectacular enough....pity really.
Posted by: ryan jackson at February 8, 2006 11:36 PM