Wikipedia, some saucy stuff here,
Questions have been raised over the propriety of Gary's conviction.[11] According to a group of supporters and a book by investigative journalist David Rose, Gary's lawyer was refused state funding to carry out a defense.[12] There is also evidence that Gary's fingerprints were not held to match the crime scene prints until seven years after, when the case was re-examined, despite Gary having been printed just one year after the murder at a time when all prints in the U.S. were being compared to prints found at the crime sites. They also claim Gary's interview at which he supposedly confessed was not recorded, nor were notes taken, and Gary's confession was written by a police officer in the days following the interview, from his own recollection. When submitted as evidence, the confession was unsigned and undated, and Gary denied having made it. They allege Gary's semen antigen secretion did not match the perpetrator's.[13] Furthermore, a cast made from a bite wound on a victim allegedly did not match Gary's bite-mark pattern. His supporters claimed that the prosecution withheld this evidence at trial.[14][15]
Rose's book also links prosecutors, judges and police who worked on the case to a white-only club called The Big Eddy Club and traces the history of racial injustice in Columbus, including the role of the judge's family members in lynchings and other injustices in the city.[12]
In 2007, Gary was positively linked through DNA to the rape and murder case of 40-year-old Marion Fisher. Marion was raped and murdered after leaving a bar in Nedrow, New York.[16]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_GaryThat last paragraph above, if he was definitely linked to this murder in New York, then, executing him would still seem to be justice. That murder in NY though, I'd like to know it is thoroughly proven. That puts a bit of a different light on this. DNA is pretty much foolproof, evidence of guilt.
I won't bump my own thread, I don't mean to go to town here, his execution was already halted at least one time in 2009 per the Georgia Courts per that wiki article above.
