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Previews of the Harris County Hearing

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom writes, "Judge to Rule on Death Penalty Constitutionality," for today's Texas Tribune.  For those following the hearing's history, it's a must-read. Texas' messy death penalty saga continues Monday in a Houston courtroom, where a district judge will for the first time in state history consider whether the risk of executing an innocent person makes capital punishment unconstitutional. Harris County District Judge Kevin Fine is set to hold a hearing in the case of John Edward Green, who is charged with fatally shooting a Houston woman during a robbery in June 2008. Harris County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the case. But Green?s attorneys and capital punishment opponents want Fine to rule that prosecutors can?t seek the death penalty because the way it is administered in Texas is unconstitutional...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 02, 2010 (boomark / email).