death penalty
Houston Law Review Article on Death Penalty Profiled in New York Times
The New York Times’ Adam Liptak highlights a forthcoming article from the Houston Law Review in today’s A New Look at Race When Death Is Sought. In Racial Disparities in the Capital of Capital Punishment, Scott Phillips of the University of Denver makes a surprising finding in analysis of death penalty statistics.
A new study to […]
Sam Milsap, who prosecuted Ruben Cantu, now crusades against death penalty
Houston Chronicle: Former Bexar DA crusades against the death penalty
More on Ruben Cantu
Death Penalty Land
Twenty-four condemned Texas killers were executed in 2006, accounting for 45 percent of all the executions in the United States. While the national count of 53 was seven fewer than 2005, the Texas total was up five from the previous year.
Houston Chronicle: Executions down in U.S. but not in Texas
A while back I ran into […]
Dow on Death Penalty: “Innocence is a Distraction”
University of Houston Law Professor David Dow had an op-ed in the NY Times not too long ago entitled The End of Innocence. It turns out to be one of the few op-eds I’ve read in recent history truely worth reading. The gist -
Innocence is a distraction. Most people on death row are like […]
Gold-medal-crazy winner, Charlie Rose interview
I had missed this article when I posted on the death penalty and Dow’s book earlier - from the NY Times Judging Whether a Killer Is Sane Enough to Die:
David R. Dow, a law professor at the University of Houston who has met more than 75 death row inmates, visited Mr. Panetti at his lawyers’ […]
The Latest Court Battle over Texas Death Penalty
The last few days my nightstand reading has been University of Houston law professor David Dow’s recent book Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Justice on America’s Death Row. It’s a great read, not technical. Dow also runs the Innocence Project which I’m hoping I might get a chance to work on at some point.
Coincidentally, a […]