REPORT TERRORISM anything unusual or suspicious that you may see or hear. In the U.K. HERE In the U.S.A. HERE

Have you noticed, wherever you may live, whatever country, that sometimes it's been proved conclusively that a person convicted of a capital offence, possibly living on death row for years, has then been executed by mistake....? Someone who was totally innocent? Makes you shudder to think about it doesn't it? Just put yourself in the place of that person, as the time ticks by, waiting to die, hope gone. Very unpleasant. You may convince yourself that some people deserve to die and it's sure that many others like you, agree. But what if you were one of the jury that convicted that person? What if you sent an innocent person to their death? Could you really live with your guilt? Would you still be in favour of capital punishment? This thought is something that you will have to live with and consider occasionally. Take the case of this guy, John Elliott, a 42 year old man of British / American dual nationality. At 7pm Texas time on Tuesday 4th February he was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville prison, USA. He was probably totally guilty, but why didn't the authorities allow DNA tests? Something which would have given incontravertible proof and left no doubt whatsoever that he was guilty..... or innocent. DNA tests don't take long and can be analysed very quickly. A couple of days at the most, if that. So why wouldn't they allow it? Were they afraid that they'd be proved wrong? Surely not.... But what other reason is there? He had nothing to lose, he'd already lost everything. They had nothing to lose, or did they? The case would have had to have been reopened to find the true killer. People would have been embarassed at messing up the first time, police jobs could have gone, pensions lost, politicians could have been proved to be wrong, heads roll, get the picture? It's easy to sweep evidence under the carpet. There have been quite a number of cases recently in Britain where this has happened, but thankfully not involving capital punishment. Capital offences yes, two cases where men had been locked up for 16 and 25 years respectively before being proved innocent and a mother, wrongly convicted of killing her baby, released after 3 years. Take a minute or two to think about it and then ask yourself, why wouldn't they allow DNA tests in Texas, especially as a person's life was at stake. Bear in mind also, it isn't just in Texas..... It's happening where you live too..... One day it may even be you.