Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Krishna Maharaj (born January 26, 1939) is a Trinidad-born British businessman. In 1987 he was convicted by a Florida court for the murder of two men, and was sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2002. In 2001 three hundred British politicians, from various different parties, wrote a letter to the Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, asking for a retrial, saying there were 'astonishing flaws' in the case against him and his original trial. He claims to have seven witnesses that place him 25 miles away from the murder scene at the time of the trial. The list of signatories includes Martin Bell Richard Body Peter Bottomley Virginia Bottomley Menzies Campbell Lynda Clark Ann Clwyd David Curry Lord Dholakia Simon Hughes Ken Livingstone Charles Kennedy Nicholas Lyell Dennis Skinner Teddy Taylor Several government law officers (past and present) are included, as are right-wingers and left-wingers. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.