Will this man die because of a police set-up?

Need another reason to oppose the death penalty? Here's one from Texas.

The true story starts like this:

Two police officers are sharing a beer in a grassy ditch off a highway in rural Texas. At their feet lies the body of a young woman killed elsewhere - strangled with something like a belt. The police officers discuss how they can shift blame for the woman¹s death away from a fellow officer, who had been heard to threaten to strangle her with a belt if she cheated on him. The men work to incriminate the woman's lover, a black man who will end up on Texas' death row.

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