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- A man whose false testimony sent an innocent man to death row before the 1988 documentary “The Thin Blue Line” cast doubt on the evidence was executed Wednesday for an unrelated murder. “Sir, in honor of a true American hero: Let’s roll,” David Ray Harris said when asked if he had a final statement.
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David Ray Harris, whose false testimony sent an innocent man to death row before the 1988 documentary “The Thin Blue Line” cast doubt on the evidence, was executed Wednesday for an unrelated...
Jun 30, 2004 · David Ray Harris, 43, was executed by lethal injection on 30 June 2004 in Huntsville, Texas for murdering a man during an attempted kidnapping. On 1 September 1985, Mark Mays, 30, and his girlfriend, Roxanne Lockard, 26, were asleep in Mays' apartment.
More than 18 years after he was sentenced to death, the legal lifeline ran out for convicted killer David Ray Harris, who gained notoriety from a documentary movie that helped show his false testimony put an innocent man on Texas' death row.
Jun 30, 2004 · By that time, Harris, an apprentice bricklayer from Vidor, was on death row for killing Mark Mays, 30, outside Mays' apartment in Beaumont. By then he also had been booted out of the...
In May 1988, David Ray Harris, by that point himself a prisoner on death row, admitted that Adams was not even in the car on the night of the murder.
Jul 1, 2004 · The executed man, David Ray Harris, 43, was pronounced dead at 6:48 p.m. Mr. Harris had been sentenced to die by lethal injection in the 1985 shooting death of Mark Mays.
David Harris was the key witness against Randall Adams, who was sentenced to death for killing a cop in 1976. The article explores the evidence, the investigation, and the doubts about the case that haunts Dallas.
