I can't think of a better reason to abolish the death penalty:
"Officials to appeal release from death row" Associated Press February 03, 2015
DOVER, Del. — A man who spent more than two decades on Delaware’s death row has been set free, for now, as prosecutors appeal a judge’s ruling that they cannot use a coerced confession he gave to police while high on heroin.
Jermaine Wright, 42, walked out of the maximum-security prison in Smyrna and into the arms of his mother, Delores, on Friday, 24 years to the day that he was taken into custody after the 1991 killing of a liquor store clerk near Wilmington.
‘‘It was an emotional reunion with his family,’’ said Herb Mondros, one of Wright’s defense attorneys. ‘‘He and his mom embraced, he walked out the door, said ‘thank you’ to the guards, put his stuff in the car, and we drove off.’’
Prosecutors promptly moved to dismiss the charges against Wright last week in a procedural requirement that clears the way for an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court of the suppression ruling by Superior Court Judge John A. Parkins Jr. If their appeal is successful, prosecutors will seek to refile charges.
‘‘The admissibility of Wright’s confession was fully litigated before the Superior Court in 1992, and in the Delaware Supreme Court in 1993,’’ said deputy attorney general Steve Wood. ‘‘Now, we will ask the Delaware Supreme Court to finally resolve the issue.’’
Before Parkins initially overturned Wright’s conviction in a 2012 ruling, which was reversed by the state Supreme Court, Wright had spent more time on death row than any Delaware inmate currently facing execution.
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