Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Execution Watch: 1/27/2016

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On Wednesday the State of Texas will kill again... JAMES FREEMAN  was given the death penalty following his conviction in the 2007 sl...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Execution Watch: 1/20/2016

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On Wednesday the State of Texas will carry out its first murder the year despite having a self-described pro-life governor. Apparently Greg ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Execution Watch: 11/18/2015

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Tonight the State of Texas will murder... RAPHAEL HOLIDAY , Convicted of capital murder in a Madison County fire, later determined to ...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Tonight on Reasonable Doubt

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Tonight I will be a guest on HCCLA's public access show Reasonable Doubt   along with Sarah Wood at 8pm on Houston Media Source TV. If y...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Rubbernecking

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Piling on? Maybe. I'd like to think of it as more slowing down to see the aftermath of the wreck on the other side of the freeway, tho...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Exposing religion for what it is

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Some time ago I wrote in this very space that the Supreme Court had no choice but to recognize same-sex marriage across the nation. Once th...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

A small measure of justice

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Maybe the name Charles Sebesta rings a bell. If not, maybe the name Anthony Graves will. Mr. Sebesta was the prosecutor who withheld evi...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Execution Watch: 6/3/2015

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On Wednesday night the State of Texas will attempt to murder... LESTER BOWER , whose recent interview with  Execution Watch  will air ...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Execution Watch: 5/12/2015

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On Tuesday night the State of Texas will kill again... DERRICK CHARLES,  condemned in the 2002 slayings of three people at their Housto...
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...