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28 Dec 2007, 10:15 am
*A special "thanks" is extended to the 2001 Texas Legislature for eliminating what little protection taxpayers enjoyed under the Tax Code and for reducing certain notice provisions into mere "window dressing" to the chagrin of unsuspecting taxpayers statewide. [read post]
27 Dec 2007, 10:12 pm
Wrote Bob Campbell ("Texas House committee plans second immigration hearing," Dec. 27):State Affairs Committee Chairman David Swinford, R-Dumas, was disappointed when representatives backed by the American Civil Liberties Union defeated his House Bill 13 last spring in Austin to withhold state money from "sanctuary cities" that refuse to cooperate.So he was pleased that Craddick gave him the responsibility to draft legislation for the 81st… [read post]
27 Dec 2007, 10:11 am
That gaping disparity provides further evidence that Texas's governor, Legislature, courts and voters should reassess their addiction to executions. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:29 am
Two state legislative bodies — the House in New Mexico and the Senate in Montana — passed bills to abolish capital punishment, and in Nebraska, the unicameral legislature came within one vote of doing so. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:25 am
At the end of 2006 in this post, I created a top ten list of the most important Texas criminal justice stories, many of which still rank among the state's most vexing public policy dilemmas.In a link-rich post, I described how Governor Perry's 2005 vetoes ensured Texas' prison overcrowding crisis, and the 80th Legislature responded with the worst possible scenario: Building prisons the state can't staff or afford to operate.Innocence… [read post]
25 Dec 2007, 7:18 pm
(At eleven, she and a friend plan to launch their own podcast.)When in 2001 the Legislature passed Texas' racial profiling statute requiring squad cars doing traffic enforcement to use cameras, many officers opposed the idea. [read post]
22 Dec 2007, 11:43 pm
These cases are always treated as isolated incidents, but soon after the Dallas scandal cropped up we saw the informant-driven debacle in Hearne, leading the Texas Legislature to require corroboration for informant testimony in undercover drug cases in 2001. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 2:27 am
But none of those bills has advanced.The nation's last execution was Sept. 25 in Texas. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 1:23 am
Find her a soft place to land (perhaps a job in another state with Eckerd?) [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 8:07 am
Legislatures in other states, including New Mexico, Montana and Nebraska, came close to abolishing it this year. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 6:00 am
Combs made a commitment to the SST Governing Board to work with the Texas Legislature for passage of needed legislation for Texas to adopt the streamlined sales tax. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 6:05 am
There had not been an execution in the state since 1963.Legislatures in five states, including Maryland, have looked closely at whether they should abandon capital punishment in favor of sentences of life without parole. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 2:34 am
But none of those bills has advanced.The nation's last execution was Sept. 25 in Texas. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 12:51 pm
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine today signed the bill passed by the N.J. legislature last week abolishing the state's death penalty. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 9:41 am
Hopefully, the now more enlightened state of Delaware Legislature will address this is issue in kind.West Virginia Charleston Gazette:New Jersey is joining West Virginia in abolishing the death penalty. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 1:13 am
"Blacks make up 11 percent of the population of Texas," reported the Chronicle, "yet 46 percent of drug offenders serving time in the state's prisons are black, according to figures provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 10:18 am
Last week, both houses of the New Jersey state legislature passed a bill to abolish the state's death penalty, a measure the governor has promised to sign.Executions reached their peak at 98 a year in 1999, but then dropped to 53 by 2006 - even before objections to lethal injection arose. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 10:11 am
" New Jersey on Thursday became the first state legislature since the 1960s to abolish the death penalty. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 2:28 am
States across the country have taken note. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 2:02 am
"New Jersey on Thursday became the first state legislature since the 1960s to abolish the death penalty. [read post]
