Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 3, 2003
United Kingdom

"It is outrageous that they haven't taken DNA tests...

"It is outrageous that they haven't taken DNA tests which are very necessary and which could prove his innocence," Conservative MP John Gummer said in relation to Jackie Elliot's case, a UK national sentenced to die in Texas, USA

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"It is outrageous that they haven't taken DNA tests which are very necessary and which could prove his innocence," Conservative MP John Gummer said in relation to Jackie Elliot's case, a UK national sentenced to die in Texas, USA. "I think that whether you support capital punishment or oppose it, the execution of someone who has such an unsafe conviction cannot be right," Mr Hugh Southey, a member of Mr Elliott's British legal team, said.
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  • (Sources: Reuters News, 04/02/2003)