Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Death three ways

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Yesterday was supposed to be a double-header day in Oklahoma. Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner were both scheduled to be murdered by the s...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

What goes up must come down

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Now that the aerial search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has been called off, resources can now be turned toward finding the unmanne...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Get a clue, Jack

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My plan had been to be home in the middle of the afternoon last Friday. It had been a long week and I was looking forward to hanging out in ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Down, set, unionize!

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Today football players at Northwestern University outside Chicago will vote on whether or not to unionize . Ever since the Chicago office of...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Waiting for Godot

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For more than 33 years an "intellectually disabled" man has sat in a Texas prison waiting for the new trial he was granted. In ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

SCOTUS has one more for the road

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Lorenzo and Jose Navarette were minding their own business driving a truck down the highway with 30 pounds of marijuana in the bed of the tr...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Trouble brewing on the mountain

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I read Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air  a few years ago and was absolutely mesmerized by his account of the deadliest climbing season ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

He could a-been the champion of the world

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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a feared middleweight. He was short and slight compared to his opponents but he was a beast in the ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Book review: The Sixth Extinction - An unnatural history

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There have been five great extinctions that we know of through the fossil record. The most famous of those extinctions was the wiping out of...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Update: Another murder behind the Pine Curtain

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The State of Texas murdered Jose Villegas last night . They strapped him down to a gurney, put an IV into his arm and pumped him full of wha...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Criminalizing thoughts and speech

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Frazier Glenn Cross is not a particularly nice person. He is a former grand dragon of the KKK and he's been charged with the murder of t...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Execution Watch: 4/16/2014

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On Wednesday night, the State of Texas will kill again... JOSE VILLEGAS,  condemned in the slayings of his ex-girlfriend, her son and her...
Monday, April 14, 2014

What day is it?

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These are the signs that greeted visitors to the Austin County Courthouse in Bellville, Texas last week. I'm sure those signs had ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Some more burnt ends

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Some things you just can't make up. You might try to put an ironic twist on something but it never comes together in a coherent way. Or ...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Another innocent man freed from prison

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How many more stories are we going to have to read about innocent men and women being released from prison after serving two decades or more...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Trusting blindly and swallowing whole

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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Execution Watch: 4/9/2014

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On Wednesday night, Texas is set to kill again... RAMIRO HERNANDEZ.  A native of the state of Tamaulipas in northern Mexico, Mr. Hernande...
Monday, April 7, 2014

More problems for the HPD Crime Lab

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Could the news be any better for the Houston Police Department Crime Lab? After having its DNA lab shut down due to faulty storage and testi...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Postscript: US Supreme Court refuses to block execution

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Tommy Sells was murdered by the State of Texas last night . He was killed after the US Supreme Court rejected his appeal of a ruling by the ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Update: On the other hand, who cares where the drugs came from?

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In a shocking move, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Federal District Judge Vanessa Gilmore's order blocking two executions ...

"Justice" of the peace?

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Oh, where to begin? The other morning I had a client in traffic court out in West Houston (Precinct 5, Place 2 for those keeping score). H...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Update: Federal judge tells Texas to put up or shut up

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Tomorrows's scheduled execution of Tommy Sells has been blocked by US Federal District Judge Vanessa Gilmore who ordered the State of T...

Execution Watch: 4/3/2014

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On Thursday Texas is set to kill again... TOMMY SELLS.  The Oakland, California, native was convicted in the slaying of a teenage girl in...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

On irony and ethics

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There are some things you just can't make up -- and this is one of them. Robert Bennett is, or, more accurately, was, an attorney in Hou...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Texas Supreme Court strikes a blow for government secrecy

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As frequent contributor Lee pointed out in his comment to my posting about the court decision compelling the State of Texas to release the n...
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