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The 10 Most Controversial Death Penalty Cases Ever

6 Carlos de Luna (1989)

In 1983, Carlos de Luna was arrested in Texas for the murder of a convenience store clerk and sentenced to death. De Luna insisted he was innocent for the entire duration of the trial and the subsequent years until his execution, without much support from anyone.

Unfortunately, it was only way after his execution – almost 20 years, in fact – that it was revealed a man named Carlos Hernandez had been boasting to relatives and friends about how he got off the hook for stabbing the clerk.

Dina Ybanez, an acquaintance of Hernandez, spoke to the Chicago Tribune about the casual confession in 2006.

“He said he was the one that did it, but that they got somebody else, his ‘stupid tocayo’, for that one,” Dina Ybanez told the Chicago Tribune. Tocayo is Spanish for “namesake”.

It was only after this article that a detective came forward and admitted the investigation had been sloppy, and that the police hadn’t pursued important tips regarding Hernandez. I think we can give the Texan police a slow, sarcastic round of applause for that one.

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