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'This is Tammany Hall, only 100 years later'

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Newsweek magazine has taken a look at the strange goings-on inside the Harris County, Texas district attorney's office. This article is sooooo worth posting in its entirety:Newsweek Web Exclusive Race, Justice, and TexasResignation doesn't end trouble for Houston's top prosecutorBy Gretel C. KovachIn his 30-plus-year legal career in Harris County, Texas, Chuck Rosenthal has been no stranger to controversy. As a prosecutor he lit firecrackers in the stairwell of the district attorney's offices soon after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings. (It was a prank, he said.) After he was elected DA in 2000 he called the death penalty a "biblical proposition" and lobbied unsuccessfully to maintain Texas's sodomy law. He defied a gag order to appear on "60 Minutes" in 2001 to defend his decision to seek the death penalty for Andrea Yates, the Houston housewife who drowned her five children...continue to full post

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).