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26 Aug 2011, 6:06 am by Bill Otis
  Kent did this by bringing up the Kenneth McDuff case (which was barely audilble over Ron's yelling). [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 7:54 am by Steve Hall
Just three were white.Not surprisingly, questions about Texas' death system continued to rage this year, notes the TCADP report, including in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, whose 2004 execution sparked a political storm this year and left open the question of whether the state executed an innocent man based on junk science. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 9:31 am by Steve Hall
Dutton's bill would prohibit death sentences in such cases.Family members and friends of Texans convicted under the law testified before the committee, pleading with lawmakers to fundamentally change the statute that unfairly sent their loved ones to death row.The statute caught lawmakers' attention in 2007 when the case of Kenneth Foster spurred national outrage and a massive grassroots effort to prove his innocence. [read post]
7 May 2012, 11:20 am by Jeff Gamso
The foremost goal of the book is to determine whether the Supreme Court has achieved its goal of reserving the death penalty for the wors[t] offenders.Those are the first and last sentences of the last paragraph of the introduction to Kenneth Williams's valuable but annoying new book, Most Deserving of Death? [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 11:29 am by Jeff Gamso
And with the host of DNA exonerations, the well-publicized executions of at least arguably innocent men like Cameron Todd Willingham, the public may come to feel more inclined toward certainty than finality. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 10:00 pm by GuestPost
The wrongful executions of Jesse Tafaro, Todd Willingham and Claude Jones are unforgivable examples of the horror that the death penalty perpetuates. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 3:33 pm by Steve Hall
On Thursday, the state of Texas is scheduled to execute its eleventh death row inmate this year.Duane Buck was convicted of killing Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler in 1995. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 12:03 pm by Jeff Gamso
  In July, you'll recall, Judge Frost halted the killing of Kenneth Smith because the murder process was, in practice, altogether arbitrary. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 12:01 am
Welcome to Blawg Review 233. [read post]