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Tales from death row: Passion and intrigue marked two capital trials

To mind-blowing stories from death row deserve Grits' readers attention:At State of Mine, Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith reprints an email from reporter Mike Hall about the astonishing case of Charles Hood, who was sent to death row after a Collin County trial in which the judge and the prosecutor were secretly having an affair. As Hall wrote, "If you were on trial, would you want to go before a judge who was having an affair with the person trying to send you to prison ? or worse, trying to have you executed?" That's a pretty grim thought, alright.Meanwhile, the Burleson judge in the long-running Anthony Graves capital murder case keeps allowing into evidence testimony by a dead man who later recanted in gross contradiction with the US Supreme Court's Crawford ruling regarding the right to confrontation of witnesses...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 13, 2008 (boomark / email).