Category: Wrongful Conviction
New image of Texas: a governor, a gurney, a needle
Image can be an transitory thing. Not so for Texas, with its enduring image of cowboys and cattle drives. Until recently.
International attention has zeroed in on Texas as the death penalty capital of the democratic world, with its record under Gov. Rick Perry and predecessor George W....
Rodeo no competition for Judge Fine's court
The throngs visiting the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo are missing the best show in town. If I were them, I'd consider hopping on the MetroRail and heading for the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, where Judge Kevin Fine is causing a bigger ruckus than the Xtreme Bulls competition....
Perry's fall partner continues chokehold on forensics panel
I've been following by live webcast the meeting of the Texas Forensic Science Commission today in Harlingen. If commissioners were meeting any farther from Austin, they'd be in Mexico.
How ironic that Texans must rely on a webcast by the New York City-based Innocence Project to...
Dark days for watchers of Texas death penalty
Thanksgiving Day 2009
I found a message in my inbox from a dear friend whose
loved one, a law-of-parties prisoner on Texas Death Row, is uncharastically depressed. I can relate, because I have been depressed about the latest round of
executions.
For me, Khristian
Oliver's -- three...
Cops Continue Unreliable Lineups at Own Peril
By Elizabeth Ann Stein
Producer, EXECUTION WATCH, KPFT-FM
T here is "nothing more convincing [to a jury] than a
live human being who takes the stand, points a finger at the defendant, and
says 'That's the one!'" wrote former US Supreme Court...
Who am I?
Elizabeth Ann Stein produces EXECUTION WATCH on KPFT FM Houston 90.1, HD-2 and www.executionwatch.org. The program, hosted by Ray Hill, airs at 6 p.m. Central Time any day Texas executes someone. It is designed to counteract the virtual news blackout in the mainstream media when prisoners are executed. She has worked as a political reporter for United Press International, police reporter at a daily newspaper, and an editor for PC Week.
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