The Oh, Welcome. Welcome to Morburogy, the podcast. I'm your host Emily J Thompson,

author of Unsoft Child Murders and co-author of Unsolved Murd the biggest debates in America, even today.

Now those who agree with the death penalty like to imagine that the state never gets it wrong.

However, that's just not the case.

It is better that 10 guilty people go free

than one innocent person be killed for a crime

he did not commit.

The case of Carlos Deluna is not a lesson in justice but in justice. It truly lays bare America's

broken machinery of death. The term machinery of death comes from Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackman, who spent 27 years

reviewing and often upholding death sentences.

He had come to the conclusion that the potential for error is just far too great in a system which is, quote,

fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake, end quote.

And while a large majority of people believe that America has the best justice

system in the world, the case of Carlos de Luna proves that even in America, an innocent man can be executed. Wanda Lopez was a single mother and high school dropout. Her husband had abandoned her when she was four months pregnant with

their daughter and Lopez worked hard to provide a good life for herself and her daughter. She worked

the three to 10 p.m. shift as a cashier at the Sigmore Shamrock Gas Station and convenience store.

The store was located in a dodgy neighborhood in Corpus Christi, Texas, right next door to the Strip Club, Wolfies,

and flanked by strip malls and fast food restaurants.

Working the evening shift, Wanda was used to drunk men coming in and harassing her.

Her parents often worried about her being alone in the store, and on occasion her father would

sit in the parking lot and wait until her shift had

ended. to South Park I do all the Grand and I have a Swiss personal

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