Newton executed.

Frances Newton died shortly after 6 p.m. Texas time this evening.

I hope that those of us who thought her innocent and those of us who know she received an horrificly unfair trial, can find it in our hearts to forgive the Harris County prosecutors, all of the judges and the elected officials who did this to her.

I want to post this quote from the Austin Chronicle about her case:

There is no incontrovertible evidence against Newton, and the paltry evidence that does exist has been completely compromised. Moreover, her story is one more in a long line of Texas death row cases in which the prosecutions were sloppy or dishonest, the defenses incompetent or negligent, and the constitutional guarantee of a fair trial was honored only in name.