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Texas Monthly Talks to Craig Watkins

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TM editor Evan Smith State of Mine blog features a podcast discussion, "Dallas County D.A. Craig Watkins on DNA, the Death Penalty, and All Those Exonerations."    Here's the text.  Click on the LINK to download and listen.Last week another Dallas County inmate was cleared of a crime he didn?t commit after spending 23 years in jail ? the 16th such exoneration since 2001. Watkins, who was elected to Henry Wade?s old job in 2006, has been a chief (possibly the chief) proponent of such testing in these parts, and his track record in just a short time in office is already the talk of criminal justice circles: A few weeks ago, Reason magazine suggested he may well be the best prosecutor not just in Texas but in America. This morning Watkins and I talked about the foregoing, as well as the obstacles to more pervasive DNA testing, his personal problems with the death penalty, and what happens in Dallas County going forward...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).