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FORMER TX GOV: DITCH THE DEATH PENALTY: On Sunday, former Texas Governor Mark Whiteonce a strong supporter of the death penalty said he thought the state should reconsider capital punishment because the risk of executing an innocent is too great. There is a very strong case to be made for a review of our death penalty statutes and even look at the possibility of having life without parole so we dont look up one day and determine that we as the State of Texas have executed someone who is in fact innocent, said White, who governed as a Democrat from 1983 to 1987. Whites remarks came as Texas Governor Rick Perry finds himself under fire for executing Cameron T. Willingham in 2004, even after an arson expert who testified in Willinghams case concluded after the conviction that his evidence was seriously flawed.