Tommy Lee Walker was executed in the electric chair in May 1956 for the rape and murder of 31-year-old Venice Parker.
Nearly 70 years after a Texas Black man was executed in a case that prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and was riddled with racial bias, officials have declared that he was innocent in the killing of a white woman in Dallas.
At the time of the trial, prosecutors had alleged Walker attacked Parker, a store clerk who was on her way home, on the evening of Sept. 30, 1953. Parker’s killing took place during a time of panic and racial division in the Dallas area as there were reports that a Peeping Tom believed to be a Black man was terrorizing women, according to the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office.
But an extensive review of Walker’s conviction by the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, along with the help of the Innocence Project of New York and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, found multiple problems with Walker’s case.
Tommy was at the birth of his son at the time that woman was raped and murdered.
His son never got to know his father. Imagine growing up with your mom falling into a bottle while she says “They took your daddy from us…”.
The depravity of man knows no bounds. We are the worst thing that has ever happened to this planet. We could be living in a time where no child goes to bed hungry, and every person is treated with the dignity they deserve. Instead, money and hatred (also known as capitalism) is speedrunning the collapse of our modern times.
Harmful trope, and stupid too. They are the worst thing that happened to this planet, colonizers, capitalists, racists and similar scum that is. Humans are amazing and make this planet a lot more interesting, and beautiful. Remove the rotten apples, unspoil the bunch.