Death sentence without evidence

Deep State Tribunal -    United States Supreme Court justices denied the appeal of Texas inmate Charles Flores on June 15, 2026, without a written explanation.  Flores sits on death row for a 1999 murder that even supporters of the death penalty now question because the key eyewitness was hypnotized by police. Flores’ lawyers asked the Court to apply Texas’ own “junk science” protections and modern research on memory, but the justices refused to review those claims. For many conservatives, that looks like the system protecting itself instead of seeking truth.

The most troubling detail is simple: there is no physical evidence tying Flores to the crime scene. No fingerprints, no DNA, no gun, no fibers, and no footprints link him to the house where a woman was shot and killed. The State relied mainly on one neighbor, Jill Bargainer, who saw two men in a car outside before the killing. She became the key witness after police used hypnosis to “refresh” her memory. Modern science warns that this kind of hypnosis can warp memory instead of fixing it, especially when done by untrained officers.