Author: tcadp

Sept. 8 TEXAS: Administering The Death Penalty: The Case Of Cameron Todd Willingham Read David Grann's article on Cameron Todd Willingham. It is long, but itis certainly worth reading in […]

Sept. 7 TEXAS: Execution opponents hope Texas case will be US turning point He was executed in Texas in 2004, convicted of setting a fire that killedhis 3 children, but […]

September 6 TEXAS: 18-year-old inmate charged in clerk's killing—-Police still searchingfor 2 other suspects Police have charged an 18-year-old Houstonian and are searching for 2others in connection with last week's […]

Sept. 5 TEXAS: Not Innocent Enough—-The elusive search for the sufficiently innocentdeath-row victim. For years, death-penalty opponents and supporters have been on what nowlooks to be an ethical snipe hunt. […]

Sept. 4 TEXAS: Inmate on death row for '85 bombing freed—-Texas attorney general dropscharges 9 months after his conviction was overturned The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in December […]

September 3 TEXAS: Defendant freed, 9 months after conviction and death sentence wereoverturned Michael Toney was released from the Tarrant County Jail on Wednesdaynight, 9 months after his conviction and […]

Sept. 1 TEXAS: Innocent but Dead There is a long and remarkable article in the current New Yorker about aman who was executed in Texas in 2004 for deliberately setting […]

August 31 TEXAS: Innocent, but Executed In his final hours on death row, Cameron Todd Willingham and his attorneystried frantically to show the governor of Texas a new scientific reportproving […]