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San Antonio Express-News: Keller is unsuited for top court job

By "Persian Cowboy"

The San Antonio Express-News, a newspaper that ran long articles covering each day of the trial of Judge Sharon Keller that took place in that city, says in an editorial today titled "Keller is unsuited for top court job" that "one step toward restoring confidence in the system is to hold Keller accountable for the events that took place in 2007 and remove her as presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals."Even in Texas, the execution of a convicted murderer is not a commonplace occurrence. When the state is prepared to administer the ultimate, irreversible sanction of justice, its officials must ensure that the judicial process has functioned with meticulous care. A human life is at stake.Sharon Keller has demonstrated herself to be unfit to serve as the highest judge on Texas? highest criminal appeals court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 27, 2009 (boomark / email).