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Texas to award first-even posthumous pardon to army veteran jailed innocently

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has suggested to award posthumous pardon for a U.S. Army veteran, who served 13 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, dying in prison in 1999.

Published: 03/01/2010 09:33

DNA testing done in 2008 cleared Tim Cole, Texas Tech student and U.S. Army veteran, and implicated another man, Jerry Wayne Johnson, who confessed to the rape in 1996, but no prosecutors or law enforcement officials would listen.

Cole did not requested any type of clemency while in jail, because he maintained he had not committed the crime.

Johnson confessed after the statute of limitations for the 1985 rape had expired. He was already serving his jail sentence for another rape.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has said that he will issue a pardon for Cole is the board suggest it. 

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