What is Shaka Sankofa?
{{no sources|date=December 2020}} '''Shaka Sankofa''' (born '''Gary Lee Graham'''; September 5, 1963 – June 22, 2000) was an [[United States|American]] [[criminal]]. Sankofa was put to death for the alleged [[murder]] of fifty-three year-old Bobby Lambert in [[Houston]], [[Texas]] on May 13, 1981. The murder happened when Sankofa was seventeen. Sankofa was found [[Guilt (law)|guilty]] of shooting Lambert in the parking lot of a Houston [[supermarket]]. He told [[police]] that he had done ten [[robbery|robberies]] that week, but did not kill Lambert. The government believed he has done as many as 22 robberies which had happened in that area during that time. One of these included Graham using a [[shotgun]] to rob a man who Graham gave a ride to when the man's [[car]] stopped working on the [[highway]]. During that robbery, the man tried to escape and was shot by Graham but he did live. While there was no [[Matter|physical]] [[evidence]] to link Graham to the murder, one woman was in the parking lot at the time and saw him do it. She said she heard the [[gun]]shot and turned on the lights of her car. She saw Graham as he started running and followed him out of the parking lot with her car. There were several other people inside the store but none of them saw the shooting. Sankofa's supporters brought his case international attention, aruging that his conviction was based on the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she saw him for a few seconds in the dark parking lot committing the murder[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/09/bp.00.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311083629/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/09/bp.00.html |date=2007-03-11 }} and she was 30 feet away from the murder scene. The jury did not hear testimony from six other apparent eyewitnesses who believed that Sankofa was not the killer. Sankofa put to death after many [[law|legal]] tries by his lawyers to stop it. These including an appeal to the [[United States Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]]. By a