By Danny Aeber­hard

(BBC News) The gov­er­nor of the US state of Texas, Rick Perry, has posthu­mously par­doned a man who had died in jail after being wrongly con­victed of rape. It is the first time Texas has issued a posthu­mous par­don. In 1986, Tim Cole was sen­tenced for the rape of a stu­dent. He always main­tained he was inno­cent, right up to his death. He had spent 13 years in prison when he died of an asthma attack in 1999. His inno­cence was proved by DNA tests nearly 10 years later.

Read the rest: BBC News — Texas ‘rapist’ granted state’s first posthu­mous par­don.