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The Difficulty of Texas Death Penalty Appeals

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"Convicts' appeals bring out small points of case in search of big reward," is Colin Guy's report in the December 23 issue of the Beaumont Enterprise.  It examines issues for post-conviction review in several southeast Texas capital murder cases.Could the favorable testimony of an accused killer's mother have spared him a death sentence if the trial had started before her death?This is the type of question appellate judges must weigh when considering the fate of six men sentenced by Southeast Texas juries to die.The most recent case considered was the capital murder conviction of David Lee Jackson, a federal inmate sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of another inmate. Jackson's appeal was denied by the U.S...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).