Call for a New Execution Date Revives Race Debate
Updated noon, Feb. 18: The Harris County district attorney's office agreed Monday morning at a hearing in a state district court to give attorneys for death row inmate Duane Buck 30 days to file with an application, asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to review his sentencing trial. The application, said Kate Black, one of Buck's attorneys, will include arguments that Buck was unfairly sentenced to death after testimony suggested that he was more likely to be dangerous because he is black. If the state's highest criminal court rejects the application, the district attorney's office ...
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Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I don't have a lot of trust in prosecutors in Texas these days, especially with regard to race relations, which still is problematic in Texas today. (For that matter, I don't have a lot of trust in many juries these days, either, who may not really understand the difference between cor-relational and causal data.)
Anya Khan
So as long as he has a large number of guards around him, and is no where near anyone he knows, the populace is safe?
Tha sais I am against the death penalty