"A Final Farewell to Greg Wilhoit, Who Survived Oklahoma's Death Row," is by David A. Love, the Executive Director of Witness to Innocence. Here's the beginning:
America's community of death row survivors bids a farewell to another one of its own. Gregory R. Wilhoit, who had spent five years on Oklahoma's death row after being wrongfully convicted for the brutal murder of his wife, died in his sleep on February 13.
Greg had suffered. Suffered a whole lot. He was convicted of killing his wife Kathy -- the mother of his two little daughters, then 4 months and 14 months old -- on June 1, 1985. The case rested on the testimony of dental experts, one of them barely out of dental school, who said the bite mark found on Kathy's body matched Greg's teeth.
But that wasn't all. Greg was a victim of bad lawyering. He hired two lawyers who were incompetent and did not defend him. In fact, Greg's defense counsel came to court drunk and threw up in the judge's chambers. And Greg was convicted in 1987 and sent to Death Row, because after all, somebody had to pay.
You can find more from David Love at HuffPost. Related posts are in the exoneration and in memoriam category indexes.
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