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Renee Feltz on Huffington Post

By Steve Hall

The former news director of Houston's KFPA, now based in New York, has just posted, "Texas Keeps Retarded Men on Death Row," at Huffington Post. It's an extended excerpt from her Texas Observer article, noted in the preceding post.An excerpt from the Huffington Post:The next psychologist to evaluate Plata was Texas prosecutors' favorite tester, George Denkowski of Fort Worth. Denkowski's career stretched back 30 years to when he directed a 15-bed group home for mildly retarded adolescent offenders in Houston, teaching them adaptive skills that would improve their behavior. He'd also been the chief psychologist at the Fort Worth State School, a 365-bed facility for people with all ranges of mental retardation. Since 1989 he'd been in private practice conducting psychological evaluations...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).