DAVIES: Detective Wharton is now retired, and he traded in his badge for a Bible. Now, the Reverend Wharton says he and the entire system made a mistake. He says he’s forever haunted by his role in putting an innocent man on death row, a man he says should be exonerated.
Even the detective think that isn’t what happened.
the hospital did a CAT scan of little Nikki and found a swollen, bleeding brain believed at the time to be a classic sign of shaken baby syndrome.
There are, indeed, conditions that will cause a brain to bleed inside the skull. Those conditions don’t explain all the head injuries outside the skull: the hematomas and hemmorhaging between the skin and the skull.
If you want to argue against the death penalty, go ahead. I lean against it; you don’t have to convince me.
But we do a disservice to every actual innocent convict when we pretend a guilty man is innocent just to avoid a sentence we abhor.
If you want to explain the myriad serious head injuries in some way that absolves him of responsibility, I’m listening.
Even the detective think that isn’t what happened.
Not so sure it’s so clear and cut.
There are, indeed, conditions that will cause a brain to bleed inside the skull. Those conditions don’t explain all the head injuries outside the skull: the hematomas and hemmorhaging between the skin and the skull.
If you want to argue against the death penalty, go ahead. I lean against it; you don’t have to convince me.
But we do a disservice to every actual innocent convict when we pretend a guilty man is innocent just to avoid a sentence we abhor.
If you want to explain the myriad serious head injuries in some way that absolves him of responsibility, I’m listening.