Executing Charles Walker
by TChris
Never in North Carolina, and perhaps not in the United States, has the state executed a convicted murderer when there is no body or even a trace of blood indicating a crime was committed. In modern times the state has not executed a defendant without a confession of guilt or some sort of physical evidence, or at least testimony from a witness who had nothing to gain from testifying.
But unless Gov. Mike Easley commutes Charles Walker's death sentence to life imprisonment, the state will execute a man who a jury concluded did not fire the fatal shot -- an outrageous injustice since one of the two men who admitted doing the killing is now out of prison and the other is eligible for parole.
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