risoners on death row whose guilt, the advocates believe, may not be beyond a reasonable doubt.Afew top candidates, from the DPIC and others: Gary Graham GRAHAM HAS BEEN ion death row in Texas for nearly 20 years for killing a man during a 1981 supermarket robbery. A 17year-old at the time, he was convicted on the testimony of a single eyewitness who claimed she saw Graham from 30 to 40 feet away in a dark parking lot. Three other eyewitnesses could not make a positive identification of Graham at the crime scene. A store employee who said he saw the shooter fleeing told police Graham was not the killer-but he was never called to testify And none of Graham's fingerprints or DNA was found at the scene. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case; he is scheduled for execution June 22. Joe Amrine was sentenced to death for stabbing a man with an ice pick in a Missouri prison in 1985. The conviction was based on the testimony of two fellow prisoners who said they witnessed the murder. But the two told different stories, and both later said they had lied under pressure from a prison investigator. Larry Osborne , Kentucky's youngest death-row inmatewas convicted of killing an elderly couple by setting their house on fire when he was 17. His conviction was based primarily on statements from a 15year-old friend, who Osborne's lawyer says was pressured to snitch by investigators. The friend then drowned before he could be cross-examined at the trial. There was no compelling physical evidence. An appeal is pending. John Fads WIlle , A drifter from Florida, Wille was convicted along with his girlfriend in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of an 8-yearold girl in Louisiana. Their convictions were based entirely on confessions they made at the time. (His girlfriend is currently serving a life sentence.) But Wille's lawyer claims they both have histories of false confessions. And he says the forensic evidence contradicts their stories. -...
