Twenty years (or so) ago, a woman named Jennifer Thompson fingered a man named Ronald Cotton as her rapist. He served eleven years until DNA testing determined that he was, in fact, innocent. Two years after his release, he met the woman whose testimony had jailed him, and told her in no uncertain terms that he forgave her.
I think that’s a hëll of a thing. I don’t know if I would be capable of doing what he did. The two of them have written a book together called “Picking Cotton
It also underscores my continued opposition to the death penalty. Who knows how many people have been unjustly executed, but I have to think that if that number is “one” or above, that is more than too many already.
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