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Alan Berlow on the Hood Case

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Freelance journalist Alan Berlow reports, "Travesty in Texas," a lengthy must-read in The Atlantic.  Here's the beginning:Texas is notorious for putting more murderers to death than any other state, and for executing some who may have been given something less than stellar due process. The case of convicted double murderer Charles Dean Hood?scheduled for execution this Wednesday?is particularly egregious. It raises deeply disturbing questions about the state's administration of justice and should be an embarrassment to anyone who claims that Texas is committed to the fair administration of its death penalty. At the center of the controversy is the allegation that the judge at Hood?s 1990 trial, Verla Sue Holland, now retired, had an ongoing romantic involvement with the man who prosecuted the case, Collin County District Attorney Tom O?Connell...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 09, 2008 (boomark / email).