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Death Penalty Process Must Be Fair

By Steve Hall

That's the title of commentary in today's National Law Journal by former Texas Governor Mark White.  He's writing about the Charles Dean Hood case.  It's subtitled, "The high court should right the wrong in the Hood case, stemming from the judge's and prosecutor's affair."I'm a longtime supporter of the death penalty, but what's happening in Charles Hood's case in Texas isn't right. If we are going to have the death penalty, we need to make sure that the process is fair and accurate. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (the state's high court for criminal cases) recently granted a new sentencing hearing for Hood on a technical issue related to jury instructions but has refused to address the central issue in this case: The judge and the prosecutor at Hood's trial had a long-term secret affair prior to the trial and concealed the relationship for 20 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).