Dallas County commissioners are expected to vote next week on a resolution declaring that a Black man executed more than 70 years ago was wrongfully convicted.
Tommy Lee Walker was 19 when he was accused of the rape and murder of Venice Lorraine Parker near Love Field airport in 1954.
A review by the District Attorney’s office Conviction Integrity Unit, with the Innocence Project and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project found “egregious violations of his constitutional rights,” according to the proposed resolution, including a coerced confession that Walker later recanted…