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Texas Exonerates Tim Cole
by Matt B. on March 2, 2010
Governor Rick Perry today issued the first posthumous pardon in Texas’ history. The pardon – for Tim Cole, a man wrongfully convicted of rape – came more than a decade after Mr. Cole’s death in prison from asthma-related complications. More disturbingly, the real perpetrator wrote to authorities to confess the crime four years before Cole’s death, but authorities ignored his entreaties.