Friday, May 30, 2014

Judge halts scheduled executions in Ohio

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In Tennessee they've decided to bring back the electric chair in face of the shortage of death drugs. In Ohio they've gone a differe...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Judge, jury and executioner

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Yes the police have a job to do. It can be a hard job and it can damn sure be a dangerous job at times. But just because you wear a uniform ...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Supreme Court rules in favor of death row inmates with mental defects

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"The states are laboratories for experimentation, but those experiments may not deny the basic dignity the Constitution protects....
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Tennessee to resurrect Ol' Sparky

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Yes, it had to be a state in the south to do it. Tennessee has proclaimed that in the event the state can't find any good death drugs ...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

In memoriam

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As Uniwatch  blogger Paul Lukas points out, Memorial Day is a day to remember those who died in service to our country - it's not a day ...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Mouthing the corporate line

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A couple of days ago a few former NFL players filed a lawsuit against the NFL alleging that team doctors illegally dispensed narcotics to pl...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Guessing who deserves to die

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There I was in the car yesterday driving back to the office from Wharton County and Houston Matters  popped up on KUHF, the local NPR affili...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Court stays Missouri execution

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The State of Missouri was just bound and determined to jab a needle into Russell Bucklew's arm and poison him . It didn't matter to ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Traffic court and the rules of grammar

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I was a bit curious tonight about a couple of things so I picked up my daughter's school dictionary. The Scott, Foresman Advanced Dict...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

A little time with nature

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Needed a break from the law so I took my girls out to Brazos Bend State Park this weekend to look for alligators. We weren't disappointe...
Friday, May 16, 2014

McNeely strikes again

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The State urges that we balance the public and private interests that are implicated in serious DWI cases and find that Texas’s mandatory b...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

To bust or not to bust the panel

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Today I have a question on tactics. I think I made the right choice the other day but, despite my best efforts, I keep questioning my decisi...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

5th Circuit halts execution

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Less than three hours before Robert Campbell was to be murdered by a lethal dose of pentobarbital by the State of Texas, the 5th Circuit Cou...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Do you know where the body's hidden?

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I have two daughters who have both seen Frozen  at least three times and know the words to every freaking song in that movie. At my youngest...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Execution Watch: 5/13/2014

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On Tuesday night, the State of Texas will kill again... ROBERT CAMPBELL. Mr. Campbell was c onvicted in the abduction and murder of Alexa...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Holding the stash

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According to this  Texas Tribune article , the drug used in Oklahoma's botched execution is stored right here in the Lone Star State. Te...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood

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My wife pointed out the following post on some local community website for our neighborhood. Now first I have to set the table for what you...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Robert Bennett speaks up

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Back on April 1, I wrote about the disbarment of Robert Bennett (see " On irony and ethics "). The State Bar initiated disciplinar...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Hanging him out to dry

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was so disturbed by a recent recording of Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend not to bring her black friends...
Monday, May 5, 2014

How's that for poisoning the panel?

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Defense attorneys representing clients accused of child abuse (and other nasty crimes against children) can now breathe a slight sigh of ...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Oh, I'm sorry, was that the record button I just pushed?

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On Wednesday Grits for Breakfast  gave us the inside scoop on a scandal in Austin over video-monitoring at the county jail . It seems that, ...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

A science experiment gone wrong

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“In Oklahoma’s haste to conduct a science experiment on two men behind a veil of secrecy, our state has disgraced itself before the nation ...
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 ...