Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Execution Watch: 4/28/2015

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Tonight, the State of Texas will kill again... ROBERT PRUETT. ,   Condemned in the 1999 slaying of a prison guard at the McConnell Unit i...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Execution Watch: 4/15/15

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On Wednesday night, the State of Texas is planning to kill... MANUEL GARZA, JR. ,   Convicted in the 2001 slaying of a San Antonio police...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Execution Watch: 3/11/2015

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On Wednesday night, the State of Texas is planning to use one of its two remaining doses of its death drug to kill... MANUEL VASQUEZ , the...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Food for thought

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Here are a few items I picked up the last week or so that seemed particularly relevant for one reason or another... If you represent defen...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Thoughts on the death penalty

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I was recently asked by a commenter what I thought was a "fair" sentence for someone convicted of killing another. The gentleman...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Execution Watch: 2/4/2015

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On Wednesday night, the State of Texas is planning to kill... DONALD NEWBURY.  While serving a 99-year sentence for robbery, Mr. Newbury j...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Update: White execution stayed

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Yesterday the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed tonight's scheduled murder of Garcia Glen White. Mr. White's attorney, Houston...

Execution Watch: 1/29/2015

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On Thursday night, the State of Texas is planning to kill... ROBERT LADD . Condemned in the sexual assault and slaying of a Tyler woman du...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Execution Watch: 1/28/2015

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On Wednesday night, the State of Texas will kill... GARCIA WHITE. Sent to death row for the 1989 slayings of 16-year-old twin sisters wit...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Execution Watch: 1/21/2015

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On Wednesday night, the State of Texas will kill for the first time in 2015... ARNOLD PRIETO.  Convicted in the murder of three people, i...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Trivializing racial injustice

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Earlier this month in South Carolina, George Stinney's name was finally cleared . Mr. Stinney was fourteen years old when he was strappe...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Killing the frog one degree at a time

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The other day I was leaving the Montgomery County Courthouse up in Conroe after court and noticed a state trooper behind me. As I turned ont...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

On torture, war crimes and hypocrisy

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So Democrats in Congress are up in arms about revelations that our government tortured inmates as part of the War on Everything Terror. It...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

The end of the season is nigh

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Today the college football regular season comes to a close. The end of the season will also bring us a brand new playoff format to determi...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Talking heads are missing the point

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Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner by putting him in a choke hold on a Staten Island sidewalk. But Mr. Pantaleo faced no legal sanction for ...
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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Update: 5th Circuit halts scheduled execution

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Based on my specialized knowledge of this process, I now conclude that the death penalty as a form of punishment should be abolished becaus...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Execution Watch: 12/3/2014

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"[T]his has been like a slow-moving train wreck since 1995."    -- Kathryn Kase, attorney for Scott Panetti On Wednesday night, ...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Something to think about while we gorge ourselves

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In 1975, in Cleveland, Ohio, Harold Franks, a money-order salesman, was murdered in a robbery. Ronny Bridgeman, Wiley Bridgeman and Ricky Ja...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Passing the buck, Missouri-style

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Enough. The Grand Jury didn't choose not to indict Darren Wilson. The St. Louis County District Attorney made that decision. For the u...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Sending in the stormtroopers to quell dissent

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Back on August 9 of this year, Ferguson (MO) police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. The kill...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The end of the road?

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Six years ago today The Defense Rests  made its first appearance in the blawgosphere. Since that first humble post on the need for PR bonds ...
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Monday, August 4, 2014

Road songs

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No deep insights today. Just a few of my favorite road songs...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Taking credit where credit wasn't due

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Michael Phillips was arrested for the 1990 rape of a 16-year-old girl. Mr. Phillips, who maintained his innocence, entered into a plea agree...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Vultures holding Argentina hostage

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Back in 2001 Argentina defaulted on its debt obligations due to a cratering economy. Over the intervening years the government reached agree...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Just looking for an excuse to affirm

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In 2012, Milton Kay was driving in Orange, Texas without wearing his seatbelt and without having a current registration sticker on his winds...