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Texas Put in Uncomfortable Spotlight

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Ted Oberg's report on a U.S. Senate hearing for KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate in Houston.  LINK On Wednesday in Washington, senators took a tough look at Texas justice. They are concerned bad science is getting into America's courtrooms. And they used two Texas examples to make their point. More than a third of all U.S. capital punishments are handed down in Texas. So the possibility that an innocent man was killed here is getting nationwide attention. Some here in Texas say we can't solve the problem on our own. "An innocent man may've been executed for a crime he did not commit," pointed out Senators Patrick Leahy (D) of Vermont. An 18-year-old north Texas arson case and the Houston Police Department's crime lab issues put the Lone Star State in an uncomfortably lonely spotlight...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).