CEB Event

So the other day there was a CEB in the Student Center.  We welcomed Randall Padgett from a small town in Alabama, who had been on death row for three and a half years.  He had a happy life, with two children and a loving wife on a little farm in Alabama.  He went to the University of Alabama, graduating with his degree in Business, and had worked at a factory type building as a manager.  One night his coworker had trouble starting her car, so he helped, and led up to an affair with his wife, which he regrets. He was accused of killing his wife, who was raped after being stabbed 40 times.  He was with his two children the night of the killing, took his children to their aunts, and left to go to Florida.  When their aunt took the children home to see their mother, the little had found her mother laying on the bed drenched in blood. Since he had the affair, they suspected Randall as the first witness. He spent five years in jail went to trial twice where the jury had fallen asleep during it because they thought it was so boring, so that really didn't help his case.  As they went through finger prints and did blood test they had found his fingerprints at the scene.  Also, the exterminator doing the blood said it was a match, but he was for sure it wasn't his so he made them do another.  As they tested they found that the blood type they had had changed.  How could that happen really?  As years went by, Randall lost his house and everything he had.  After spending all those years in jail he was accused of killing his wife and put on execution on his birthday, May 22.  Finally they had found out that Randall really didn't kill his wife, but they will not go for the other person who had really killed her because they don't want to prove that he was right and they were wrong. He also signed up to get paid for the time he was in jail, but Alabama has said they would never give out that much money to someone since they don't have it, therefore he doesn't have the chance to be part of that. Randall mourns his wife until this day, but is now remarried, and still unemployed because of the felony he was accused of.  That is the story of a man who went from death row to innocent.