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DMN Editorial: Judge Keller's disappointing testimony

By "Persian Cowboy"

Dallas Morning News is the second newspaper in Texas after the Austin American-Statesman to publish an editorial following last week's trial of Judge Sharon keller. It was impossible not to gasp last week when Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller addressed the question of what she would do differently if she had a do-over in the execution of Michael Richard. Nothing. That was the essence of Keller's answer at her misconduct trial. It is as disturbing now as it was when news broke of her infamous "we close at 5" directive to court personnel minutes before Richard's execution was scheduled to be carried out in September 2007. Her defense is built on a thinly sliced interpretation of procedures that offend the expectation that Texas courts should be accessible and blindly fair...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).