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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Aug 21
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    Michael Tracey Retweeted Radley Balko

    Very strong possibility that Texas just executed an innocent man. Despicablehttps://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1164328876069261317 …

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    Radley BalkoVerified account @radleybalko
    Nine medical examiners said the victim likely died while Larry Swearingen was in jail for parking tickets. Nine. Texas just killed him, anyway. https://twitter.com/lilianasegura/status/1164324487241904131?s=21 …
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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Aug 21
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        Larry Swearingen maintained his innocence for 20 years, and new exculpatory evidence appeared to support his account. Read his full final statement sent to @TomJackmanWP of the Washington Post: "Today the State of Texas murdered an innocent man"pic.twitter.com/1xH4BkFG5B

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Aug 21
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        Gov. Greg Abbott should be ashamed of himself, but this is nothing new for Texas. Rick Perry almost certainly approved the execution of another innocent man: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire … So did George W. Bush:https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-observer-exclusive-dna-tests-undermine-evidence-in-texas-execution/ …

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      1. KayJay‏ @KelsoRulezz Aug 21
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        That's called murder I think.

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      2. Mr. Goodthink‏ @mr_goodthink Aug 21
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        *Texas* is a state. Specific individual Texans were responsible for his prosecution and execution. Always weird to me when states are anthropomorphized

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      3. Ricky Couture‏ @CoutureRicky Aug 21
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        Texas is also an identity, one that people take pride in and that cements attitudes solely based upon living and dying in Texas. That's not anthropomorphizing -- it's holding a state, and the majority who decide its laws, accountable for those attitudes.

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      1. Daniel  🌟‏ @hexen220 Aug 21
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        Replying to @mtracey @KyleKulinski

        Did Kamala Harris withhold evidence

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      1. Jim Satala‏ @JimSatala Aug 21
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        This is why I oppose the death penalty

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      2. John B‏ @jbossy56 Aug 21
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        Capital punishment should be reserved for certain very specified egregious crimes like mass murder, murder of children, murders involving torture and some others. They must be proved at a standard higher than reasonable doubt. Beyond the shadow of any doubt whatsoever.

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      3. Sandy Auriene Sulli‏ @Axollot Aug 22
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        We can't trust the State (any state) to carry it out on guilty only. Need to STOP ALL EXECUTIONS. Communte to LIFE.

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      1. joely‏ @joely Aug 21
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        Remember, too, Shaka Sankofa: "I’m an innocent Black man that is being murdered. This is a lynching that is happening in America tonight. There’s overwhelming and compelling evidence of my defense that has never been heard in any court of America." https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/grahamgarylast.html …

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      1. TEXAS for TULSI‏ @Temo1270 Aug 21
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        Smh...my state!

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      1. Linda Lee‏ @LindaLeeYou123 Aug 21
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        Many countries have abolished the death penalty because it is grotesque, and often disproportionately used against the poor. Life in prison is good enough, when innocent people have been killed by the state.

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      1. Rohit Unusual American‏ @BePositiveIndya Aug 22
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        Texas is scary!

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      1. James Madison‏ @JamesMa96163439 Aug 22
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        They do that... I submit that we either get shot by cops, or killed, unjustly, by the system, and a percentage of people are innocent victims of a system that is imperfect, ultimately apathetic, and barbaric... Kinda like our society, and worldwide reputation...

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      1.  🎃 🔪Ben Winegard 🔪 🎃‏ @BenWinegard Aug 22
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        I don’t think it’s a *very strong* possibility. The evidence wasn’t dispositive but I found the state’s case compelling. Still, I’m not comfortable executing a person even if it’s 95% likely that he or she is guilty.https://caselaw.findlaw.com/tx-court-of-criminal-appeals/1353245.html …

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      1. Black Forest Cake‏ @forest_cake Aug 21
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        That’s Texas for you.

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      1. Public Defender‏ @warm_apple_pi Aug 22
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        He was in jail for parking tickets. We should sell Texas to Mexico.

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      1. Noel Darlow‏ @noeldarlow Aug 21
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        The politics of the right is the politics of the knife. A blade with a fine-honed edge, murderously sharp. They sneer at anyone who baulks at wielding the blade, even one of their own. They'll accept almost anything to get someone who will. The knife must cut, red & deep.

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      1. Nancy Freed‏ @jeansbluejeans Aug 21
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        OMG, what a horrendous tragedy if true and just how did they get away with this?...again....

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