it certainly never occurred to me that we might have gotten it wrong in the cantu case but the one thing that is abundantly clear to me today is that if anybody got it wrong, it was me and the way i got it wrong was that i made a flawed decision and that s a mistake in judgment that i will live with for the rest of my life. as for susan reed, the events of the ruben cantu case haven t shaken her belief in the death penalty. i have seen evil. i have tried cases of evil, evil people who are never going to
susan reed, the district attorney for san antonio for 16 years, declined the request. with the government denying any fault in the execution of ruben cantu, ruben s family cannot sue for damages. the cantus aren t the only ones who have struggled to move on. it certainly never occurred to me that we might have gotten it wrong in the cantu case but the one thing that is abundantly clear to me today is that if anybody got it wrong, it was me and the way i got it wrong was that i made a flawed decision and that s a mistake in judgment that i will live with for the rest of my life. as for susan reed, the events of the ruben cantu case haven t shaken her belief in the death penalty. i have seen evil.