Clemency for dead prisoner

THE Texas pardons and parole board has recommended clemency in the case of a man who died in prison after he was wrongly convicted of rape.

Clemency for dead prisoner
Mon, 01 Mar, 2010 - 00:00

The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported the recommendation in Tim Cole’s case was forwarded to Governor Rick Perry’s office on Friday.

Mr Cole died in 1999 aged 39. He was convicted of the 1985 rape of a Texas Tech University student in Lubbock.

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