Maintaining Innocence- and Truth

Sunday night 60 Minutes ran a story about people being released from prison after many years because they have finally been proven innocent. It was a story from Texas and an iconic prosecutor in Dallas named Henry Wade. It has been found that evidence was withheld from the defense, for example, which would have probably proven the defendant's innocence.

One of the people they mentioned and interviewed was released after 27 years in prison- from age 28 - 55. All those lost years and lost opportunities. It boggles the imagination. Throughout that entire time he maintained that he was absolutely not guilty.

What amazed me was that he was up for parole a number of times in that 27 years and he was always refused. Why? Because, they said, he obviously had not come to terms with what he had done. He always maintained his innocence, even when finally saying he was guilty would have gotten him parole.

He was asked why he maintained innocence when he could have been free. He answered, "I didn't do it. A man has to stand up for something."

Yes, and truth is worth standing up for.