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Harris County Hearing Set for Monday

By Steve Hall

"Stage is set for review of death penalty," is the title of Brian Roger's report in today's Houston Chronicle. The state of Texas does not adequately safeguard against executing the innocent, national anti-death experts and defense lawyers are expected to argue next week in an effort to persuade a Houston judge to renew his declaration that the death penalty is unconstitutional. The hearing, a rare judicial review of capital punishment in Texas, is expected to last two weeks and attract some of the biggest anti-death penalty gunslingers to town, including Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project. Scheck is expected to try to convince the judge that Texas executed two innocent men and has almost certainly executed others...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 03, 2010 (boomark / email).