Executions Contested Through Time

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Before this year's Troy Davis travesty: A history of contested death penalty cases.

• Ferdinanda Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1927)
• 8 teenaged Scottsboro boys: Race in Alabama (1931)
• Bruno Hauptman: the Lindbergh baby (1932)
• Caryl Chessman: Death Penalty without Murder (1960)
• Carlos De Luna: the Wrong Man? (1989)
• Cameron Todd Willingham: Innocent of Arson? (2004)
• Teresa Lewis: A Woman on Death Row (2010)
• Humberto Leal: An International Incident (2011)
• Duane Buck: Racial Bias (2011)