I happened to catch CNN’s “Murder Abroad: The Amanda Knox Story” last night. Knox was the University of Washington student who studied abroad in Italy. She is now serving a 26 year sentence in Italy for the murder of her roommate. I had read a little about Knox off and on over the past few years, but the CNN story tied it altogether.

You can read the story from CNN HERE.

First of all, Amanda Knox is not a murderer.

Italy should be ashamed of the lead prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, in the case. Here’s a story about him. Mignini apparently does not like it when journalists report unfavorable things about him, either. Supposedly his people even went after an Italian blogger.

If you think the justice system in the United States is messed up, then one needs only to read the story about Knox and the Italian system to see how “wonderful” we have it in the good ol USA.

Knox is appealing her conviction now. You can help Amanda and her family by visiting this website. You can send money, donate your United Airlines/US Airways airline miles, and find the addresses to write to the White House, the State Department or to Washington’s U.S. Senators (Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell) to ask them to intervene.

Prayers would be helpful, too.

It’s a shame that the officials from the United States have not done more to help Amanda Knox and her family. There’s a lot that can be done “behind the scenes” to bring this mess to an end – and those two U.S. Senators should be the leaders.