Preston Hughes Executed for 1988 Murder
Preston Hughes III, who was convicted in the fatal stabbings of two Houston youths in 1988, was executed Thursday at 7:52 p.m. after the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal district court rejected his last-minute appeals. Hughes was the second Texas inmate executed in two days, following the execution of Ramon Hernandez on Wednesday, and is the last scheduled this year.
Hughes was convicted in 1989 of fatally stabbing LaShandra Charles, 15, and her cousin Marcell Taylor, 3, in a field behind a Fuddruckers restaurant in Houston. A police sergeant reported that Charles identified the name “Preston ...
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layne RODGERS
DNA testing was rejected. Document of police gaining access to Preston's property TWICE was denied and hid, police only admit to searching his house once. The 'evidence' against Preston was weak and deficient, Based on hearsay.
The US bent the law with lies and hearsay to suit their own needs.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2012-11-02/framing-the-guilty/all/
frank garcia
http://www.skepticaljurordocs.com/documents/2012/11/hughes-chapter-64-motion-for-dna-testing.pdf