Cory Maye - injustice in action

I am late learning about this. It's thanks to Alon over at UTI that I even heard about it. He provides a on-line petition to free Cory Maye which you may sign if you like (I have doubts about the usefulness of such things, but as long as that's not your only response I don't see how it can hurt. I signed it.).

Cory Maye's door was kicked in four and half years ago by armed intruders. His baby daughter was sleeping in the room whose door was kicked in. Fearing for his life and for hers, he shot one of the intruders as they came into the house, and it was then that they identified themselves as police, at which point he instantly surrendered. Unfortunately for all involved, the policeman he shot died.

The police were executing a warrant on a different man, one who didn't even live in the same half of the duplex as Maye. It's unclear if they thought Maye's half of the duplex was empty, part of a single residence, or what - but he wasn't the target of the raid.

Now he's on death row. Read the background and details here and then write to Gov. Barbour of Mississippi. A real, snail-mail letter, to Gov Haley Barbour, P.O. Box 139, Jackson, Mississippi 39205.