"A Circle of Blood
The Story of Paul William Scott: Innocent on Death Row"
A Circle of Blood goes behind the scenes to reveal an epidemic of innocence in America’s prisons. What America is saying about wrongful convictions:
"Are they cyborgs? America’s prosecutors have blood on their hands."
"It’s about money and power, justice be damned."
"This case cries out for justice."
"You can buy experts who will provide the outcome you wish to prove in court. It’s all about money."
"With prosecutors it’s a numbers game, truth and justice don’t count. And the judges know what’s going on."
"My husband was convicted of a crime that never happened. It was a feather in the DA’s cap."
"Of course it isn’t fair. This random wholesale incarceration of the innocent is a problem with prosecutors, caused by politics and permitted by an uncompassionate system of justice."
Dateline: NY (AP) – From attorney Barry Scheck’s The Innocence Project, a 60 year-old man who spent 17 years in prison for rape became a free man Wednesday (September 1, 1999). DNA evidence testing showed that he was not guilty of this crime. He is the 62nd such inmate in the United States to be exonerated by DNA testing by Scheck’s group.
Dateline: Chicago (AP) – Northwestern University has documented 82 wrongfully convicted death row inmates since 1976. They were found to be not guilty of the crimes for which they had been convicted and have been since released. Florida leads the nation in these wrongful death row convictions with 20.
Dateline: Austin (NY Times) – An innocent man, David Wayne Spence, is executed by the state of Texas on April 3, 1997. Said Robert Snelson, one of the inmates who testified in that trial: "We all fabricated our accounts of Spence confessing in order to try to get a break from the state on our cases."
According to Governor George W. Bush, in a letter to writer Bob Pauley: "When I was sworn in as the Governor of Texas, I took an oath of office to uphold the laws of our state, including the death penalty." At least 25 innocents have been executed in the U.S. this century. "Kill ‘em all, let God sort it out!" seems to be the arrogant response of the establishment to the growing number of wrongful convictions.
Wrongly Convicted
—When Innocence Is Not Enough—
In each of the cases listed below, an individual was convicted
And sentenced to death for a crime he or she did not commit
Paul William Scott is innocent! Crosley Green is innocent! David Wayne Spence is innocent! Dan E. Routly is innocent! Bradley P Scott is innocent! Charles Smith is innocent! Jay C. Smith is innocent! Kirk Bloodsworth is innocent! James Richardson is innocent! Timothy Hennis is innocent! David Keaton is innocent! Samuel A. Poole is innocent! James Creamer is innocent! Muneer Deeb is innocent! Federico M. Macias is innocent! Wilbert Lee is innocent! Freddie Pitts is innocent! Thomas Gladish is innocent! Richard Greer is innocent! Robert Cox is innocent! Randall Adams is innocent! Jesse Keith Brown is innocent! Ronald Keine is innocent! Clarence Smith is innocent! Delbert Tibbs is innocent! Earl Charles is innocent! Jonathan Treadway is innocent! Gary Beeman is innocent! Walter McMillian is innocent! Gregory R. Wilhoit is innocent! Joseph Burrows is innocent! Jerry Banks is innocent! Earnest Miller is innocent! William Jent is innocent! Larry Troy is innocent! Patrick Croy is innocent! Dale Johnston is innocent! John C. Skelton is innocent! Gary Nelson is innocent! Larry Hicks is innocent! Charles Giddens is innocent! Michael Linder is innocent! Johnny Ross is innocent! Anibal Jarramillo is innocent! Lawyer Johnson is innocent! Willie Brown is innocent! Jerry Bigelow is innocent! Robert Wallace is innocent! Clarence Brandley is innocent! Anthony Brown is innocent! Neil Ferber is innocent! Joseph Brown is innocent! Perry Cobb is innocent! Darby Tillis is innocent! Henry Drake is innocent! John Henry Knapp is innocent! Vernon McManus is innocent! Anthony Ray Peek is innocent! Juan Ramos is innocent! Andrew Golden is innocent! Clarence Smith is innocent! Sabrina Butler is innocent! Robert Charles Cruz is innocent! Rolando Cruz is innocent! Alejandro Hernandez is innocent! Adolph Munson is innocent! Verneal Jimerson is innocent! Gary Gauger is innocent! Troy Lee Jones is innocent! Carl Lawson is innocent! Roberto Miranda is innocent! Dennis Williams is innocent! Ricardo Guerra is innocent! Benjamin Harris is innocent! Robert Hayes is innocent! Randall Padgett is innocent! Curtis Kyles is innocent! Robert Lee Miller Jr. is innocent! Jesse Tafero is innocent!
This is only a partial listing of death row inmates who have been proven innocent. Hundreds more are still on death row, known to be absolutely innocent. Because of unscrupulous prosecutors more concerned with winning their cases than in finding out the truth, they remain there.
We need your help to end this madness!
