'Houston Chronicle' Suggests Innocent Man was Executed

By E&P Staff

Published: November 19, 2005 5:00 PM ET
NEW YORK It is often said that while many innocent men and women have been released from death row in recent years, there might not yet be one fully documented case of an innocent person actually put to death by the state. But an article in the Houston Chronicle for its Sunday edition strongly suggests that an innocent man--or rather, a teenager--was executed, 12 years ago.

Ruben Cantu, 17, was executed in Texas in 1993, convicted of murder. He'd had no previous convictions and claimed he was framed in this one.