Debra Milke freed after two decades on US death row

[barryqwalsh]

A judge in Phoenix dismissed the murder case against Berlin-born Arizona woman Debra Milke, who spent more than 20 years on death row for the killing of her four-year-old son in 1989.

Milke, the daughter of an German mother and an American man, sobbed and hugged her supporters. Judge Rosa Mroz ended the case after prosecutors lost their final appeal last week.

Christopher was four years old when he was shot. He thought he was going to see Santa Claus at a mall in December 1989. But he was taken to a desert near Phoenix by two men instead and shot three times in the head.

Berlin-born woman Debra Milke freed after two decades on US death row News DW.DE 23.03.2015

 

[airplanemechanic]

Pretty sad, a woman spends 20 years on death row and her thread is ignored. Republicans claim to care about people, but then don't give a shit that innocent people are sitting on, and dying on, death row.