Criminal
May 20, 2010
When the Innocent Are Sentenced to Death
Maurice Possley of the Northern California Innocence Project reviews "Killing Time: An 18-year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom" by John Hollway and Ronald Gauthier.
By Maurice Possley
For three decades, Harry Connick Sr. was the district attorney in Orleans Parish, La., a state where wrongly convicted defendants have been exonerated at one of the highest per capita rates in the nation.
Eight men have been exonerated from death row and four of them were sentenced to death in Orleans.
The story of one of them, John Thompson, is revealed in a compelling book, "Killing Time: An 18-yea...
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