a5xc: a5xc: In Texas, late November 2001, five men drove from Ore City to Longview. The youngest man
a5xc: a5xc: In Texas, late November 2001, five men drove from Ore City to Longview. The youngest man of the group, Clinton Young (18 years old at the time), was one of these men but he barely knew the other ones who he was travelling with.Once the five men arrived in Longview, one man got shot and died. After that happened, two of the men went away and the remaining two, where Clinton was one of, drove to Midland where along the way another man got kidnapped by them and was forced to join them. Later, this man got shot and died as well. Clinton Young got arrested while trying to flee from police and he got accused of capital murder. His two co-defendants both got lesser charges and the fourth man who was involved never got charged. The State’s case against Clinton Young mainly relied on the testimony of the three other men who were involved and so the State maintained that Clinton was the driving force in the murders and kidnapping. Clinton Young got sentenced to death. But did Clinton really murder these two men? There are a few points which prove that Clinton Young might be innocent. First of all, there were no fingerprints nor DNA found that would link Clinton to the murders. The eyewitnesses changed their story constantly, for example: one of the three men initially told the police that Clinton fired all three shots at the first victim, but later changed his story and said the third shot was fired by one of the other men involved. The police failed to investigate important crime-scenes and lost a lot of evidence. For example, the car that belonged to the first victim was never properly investigated nor the area surrounding it. There are also statements by several people, that were held in custody with one of Clinton’s co-defendant, that the co-defendant bragged about being the actual killer in the case and getting away with murder, he even admitted that Clinton was asleep during one of the murders. If you want to know more about this case, I suggest watching the documentary made by Jessica Villerius “Code Rood: De Doodstraf” (Code red: The Death Penalty) and the follow-up which is mainly about Clinton Young’s case “Deal met de Dood” (Deal with death). You can also visit his website here. Clinton Young (now 33 years old) is set to be executed on the 26th of October, 2017. UPDATE: Jessica Villerius and Renate Bouwmeester (long time penpal of Clinton and founder of the Clinton Young Foundation) appeared on Dutch television yesterday (7/25/2017) to bring more attention to Clinton’s case and ask people for help.As some of you probably already know, this case is very important to me and I wanted to ask you to check out this link if you want to help to stop the execution of Clinton Young on the 26th of October, 2017.I would really appreciate it if you would reblog this post and help spread the word and if you made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read this. -- source link