Opinion: A Florida death row case indicts the entire capital punishment system (via latimesopinion)
who routinely spun lies about fellow jail inmates — including those facing murder charges — to get special treatment for his own crimes, which included fraud, grand theft and child sexual abuse.
One of the men convicted based on Skalnik’s testimony, James M. Dailey, recently received a reprieve from his scheduled November execution date to allow his lawyers time to pursue an appeal based on new evidence that he did not commit murder in 1985.placing Dailey at the murder scene, and the killer, a friend who initially fingered Dailey, has recanted, saying he acted alone.
That leaves the apparent perjury by Skalnik that Dailey — who says he knew Skalnik was a snitch and refused to talk to him in jail — confessed to the crime. It would be comforting to say, well, this is an aberration. But it’s not. Skalnik’s testimony helped send dozens of people to prison, and three others besides Dailey to death row.involve convictions based at least in part on testimony by jailhouse informants. In murder cases, the National Registry of Exonerations reports at least 70% of exonerations involved lying witnesses and official misconduct.
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