Below is a quote from the article in question.   Now, I'm a strong advocate of being careful of who you hang out with.  Bad association spoils useful habits, but I would have to agree that this goes a bit too far in putting a man to death for a murder that he did not commit and has been confirmed that he didn't commit.

The link at the bottom contains the full story.  I wonder what everyone else's opinion is on this.

In less than three weeks Kenneth Foster, an African American man sentenced to death in 1997 for the murder of Michael LaHood, is scheduled to be executed in Texas.

LaHood's actual killer, Mauriceo Brown, was executed in 2006. Foster, who was in a car about 100 yards from the crime when it was committed, was convicted under the controversial Texas state "law of parties", under which the distinction between principal actor and accomplice in a crime is abolished. The law can impose the death penalty on anybody involved in a crime where a murder occurred. In Foster's case he was driving a car with three passengers, one of whom, Brown, left the car, got into an altercation and shot LaHood dead. Texas is the only state that applies this statute in capital cases, making it the only place in the United States where a person can be factually innocent of murder and still face the death penalty.

Kenneth Foster's Fate