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Bobby R. HOPKINS - INNOCENT EXECUTED IN TEXAS
Saturday, 05 August 2006
IN MEMORY OF BOBBY RAY HOPKINS
On February the 12th 2004 at 8:18 p.m., Bobby Ray Hopkins, an African-American death row inmate, was pronounced dead after being executed by lethal injection, in Hunstville (Texas). Eleven days later, Bobby Ray Hopkins would have made thirty seven. He had spent about ten years in Texas death row, after having been sentenced to die for a murder on two young white ladies.
It was his first execution date. However, none of the courts granted him a stay of execution (not even the Supreme Court), in spite of the PROVED VIOLATION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: It is true that his confession had been coerced, and since, Bobby had never stopped claiming his innocence. Neither was he granted the right to make new DNA tests AT NO COST TO THE STATE. Now, THOSE TESTS COULD PERFECTLY HAVE PROVED HIS INNOCENCE.
Instead of that, he has been put to death in ten minutes, strapped on a gurney, without any mercy.
Bobby R. HOPKINS - INNOCENT EXECUTED IN TEXAS