My name is Vera Thomas and I am Reginald Clemons’s mother. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that my child would be sentenced to death. Before April 1991 I hadn’t given much thought to the criminal justice system. I just assumed people got fair trials and if someone was convicted, they must be guilty. I’d hear hideous descriptions about what someone did and think they were a horrible person.
I didn’t find out until Reggie’s case that what you see in the news or even in court is not always the whole story.
