He wasn’t “proven innocent” nor was he “put to death by” George W. Bush.

Jones and 2 accomplices robbed a liquor store. Jones or Dixon shot the owner, and eyewitnesses couldn’t identify which one it was. The third man claimed that Jones was the shooter, then prosecutors cooked up some forensic evidence to allow them to use the testimony for a conviction. The 3rd man was coerced into saying that Jones, not Dixon, was the shooter. All three could have probably been convicted of felony murder and it’s never been determined which of the two men was the shooter.

And pinning this on Bush when:

“Documents show that attorneys in the governor’s office failed to inform Bush that DNA evidence might exonerate Jones. Bush, a proponent of DNA testing in death penalty cases, had previously halted another execution so that key DNA evidence could be examined. Without knowing that Jones wanted DNA testing, Bush let the execution go forward.”

Oh, and even the co-founder of the Innocence Project says “I’m convinced that [Bush] would have granted this reprieve had he known about it. I find it just astonishing that he wasn’t told. That’s a pretty serious breakdown in the criminal justice system.”

Yes, the death penalty can be a bad thing. But this doesn’t prove what you think it proves. The strand of hair was never presented as definitive evidence. It was just cooked up so they could use the accomplice testimony. The scientist even said that they couldn’t definitively determine whose hair it was. This is an issue of corrupt prosecutors and police officers, not about bad science or even the death penalty. And this is not an innocent man.