Now a seventy-two-year-old child
Appears in court to receive justice
Long denied after a judge went wild
And sentenced a defendant profiled,
A case of societal malice.
Back then, this seventy-two-year-old,
Punished for a crime he did not do,
Had his dad taken to the scaffold,
He and his mom left out in the cold.
Now they say dad was innocent too.
So now they regret taking Dad’s life—
Back then forfeited as punishment
For killing an innocent housewife,
For brutal rape, then wielding a knife—
Finally admitting bad judgement.
“I feel,” Tommy Walker told the court,
“That I have been tricked out of my life.”
Now his child has only one resort:
Accept this tardy bit of comfort,
And pray his dad had an afterlife.
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See “Dallas set to exonerate man wrongfully executed for murder 70 years ago” by J.D. Miles, January 19, 2026, CBS News.