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Exonerees to Call for Moratorium on Texas Executions (www.innocenceproject.org)
A group of exonerees will come together in the Texas State Capitol building this afternoon to call for a statewide moratorium on executions
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Materials from Indigent Defense Conference (gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com)
In their e-newsletter this week, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition provided links to presentation materials from a conference I attended last week on indigent defense.
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Death Penalty Politics (standdown.typepad.com)
Capital punishment is legal in some form in 37 states, but it is embraced nowhere as enthusiastically as in Texas. Despite making up around 8% of the population, Texas has been the home of a third of... More
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Homeless man set to die for killing helpful woman (www.chron.com)
Condemned prisoner Gregory Wright looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to block a scheduled Thursday evening trip to the Texas death chamber where he faced lethal injection for the fatal stabbing and... More
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DNA Evidence: Helpful or Hurtful? (www.ktrh.com)
It's been nearly 20 years since the first person in Harris County was convicted using DNA evidence. Since then, this valuable tool has become a double edged sword.
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SANDERS: Shameful record of executions (www.star-telegram.com)
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Editorial: Upgrading police procedures (www.dallasnews.com)
Richardson Police Chief Larry Zacharias lays it on the line: Law enforcement professionals have an "ethical obligation" to upgrade procedures when justice hangs in the balance.
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A True Crime: Video (www.texasmonthly.com)
These men were exonerated through DNA testing. But not before they spent years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.
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The Exonerated (www.texasmonthly.com)
These 37 men spent 525 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Then came the hard part: freedom.
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Texas inmate to die for killing 3 (www.chron.com)
Arrested repeatedly and in and out of jail numerous times, condemned killer Kevin Watts admits to being disobedient and disdainful toward authority.
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