Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Yet another reason why it sucks to be poor

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Nowhere in the warning does it say that the government could come and ask you to pay for your appointed lawyer's services. Kelly Un...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Ohio botches another murder

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This past Wednesday, the state of Ohio attempted to murder Alva Campbell, a 69 year-old who's been on death row since 1997. And, once ag...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Fuck Troy Nehls and fuck you for voting for him

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Yes, it's low-hanging fruit. But I've been under the weather the last couple of days and it's the best I can do. I'm su...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Execution Watch 11/8/2017

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Tonight the killing machine strikes again... RUBEN CARDENAS , a Mexican national, was convicted of murdering his cousin, a teenage gir...
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Monday, November 6, 2017

Just kill him

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Today the Supreme Court told the State of Alabama that it's okay to kill Vernon Madison , who was convicted of the 1985 murder of a poli...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Execution Watch 10/12/2017

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Tonight the State of Texas will kill again... ROBERT PRUETT, 38, has steadfastly claimed that others framed him in the 2002 killing o...
Monday, February 6, 2017

The bankruptcy of ideas

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President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch is a real throwback. Really a throwback. He is a self-described "ori...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Execution Watch: 10/05/2016

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will return to its barbarous ways and fire up the killing machine for the first time in six months... ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Could you be a bit more polite, please?

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How come after the murder of an unarmed black man by the police the first thing folks want to do is caution (mostly black) protesters to be ...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Tallying up the cost of mass incarceration

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Carimah Townes just wrote a very interesting short piece in Think Progress  about the true cost of mass incarceration . While we spend $80 ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The commodification of the law

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On Tuesday I spent more time that usual on Twitter. It might have had something to do with it being my birthday and feeling a bit unmotivate...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Really?

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Some shit you just can't make up. Here is an e-mail I received on Tuesday afternoon. Dear Colleague,   The 2016 HBA Judicial Preferen...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Prison inmates sue Texas over conditions

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I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who don't give two damns whether or not the state provides air conditioning for its inm...
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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Victory at Standing Rock (sort of)

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Last weekend the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline tore up sacred land following the filing of court documents by lawyers represen...

It's a trifecta!

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Harris County DA Devon Anderson may truly be the gift that never stops giving. In addition to the dumpster fire which is Precinct 4, in addi...
Friday, September 9, 2016

And the hits just keep coming

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Well, that certainly didn't take long. Already ankle deep in an evidence destruction scheme in Precinct 4, Harris County DA Devon Ande...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Stepping in it

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Oh what a mess Harris County DA Devon Anderson has found herself in. As has been reported in local media outlets, over the last nine years s...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

An attack on discretion

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In theory, a judge should make his or her decisions on the bench without regard to politics. In theory, a judge should be shielded from poli...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

A false patriotism

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I guess Melissa Jacobs of Sports Illustrated just can't help herself . She is so oblivious to the world around us that she buys into the...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Taking a stand by sitting down

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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigge...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Round peg, square hole, health care edition

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So Aetna is pulling out of Obamacare exchanges because the Department of Justice wouldn't approve of their merger with fellow healthcare...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Just go sit at that other table and wait your turn

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A couple of weeks ago I was listening to Democracy Now!  and heard a replay of a debate between Pulitizer Prize winning journalist and autho...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Revealing ignorance

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The purpose of investigative journalism is to peel back the layers to a story or an event so that the world can see it for what it is and no...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Window dressing

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Back in April of this year Harris County received a $2 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to reform its criminal (in)justice syste...
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Friday, August 12, 2016

What's in a number?

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Just to let y'all know, there is no constitutional crisis because there are only eight justices sitting on the US Supreme Court. There...
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