When Raul Meza Jr. walked out of a Texas prison in 1993 after serving about a decade for killing an 8-year-old girl, outrage followed him everywhere.
Picketers drove him out of a half-dozen communities — from El Paso, where someone threatened to set fire to his home, to his family's house in Austin and the small towns of Sweetwater and Mineral Wells. Sometimes Meza barely had time to unpack before residents chased him away.
