It seems surreal to say this, but the death sentence of a man in Texas who was on death row for a murder everyone knows he did not commit has actually been commuted — by the Texas parole board and (under pressure, obviously) Governor Rick Perry.
Kenneth Foster, who will now spend life in prison instead of being put to death, was 19 when he drove the get-away car for a series of armed robberies that ended with a murder. The man who committed the murder (while Foster remained in the car, unknowing) has already been executed, and Foster was on death row because the prosecution claimed he should have “anticipated” the murder. Read more about the case here.
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I’m pretty surprised his sentence was commuted. This is Texas, after all.
I agree. Texas is the leading state in putting inmates to death. Especially African American ones. After all, this is the state that executed a mentally handicapped individual. But some how, the Angel of Mercy found Kenneth Foster, before he left this world. Amen to that.
He must not be mentally retarded.
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