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Lawyers Try to Revive Texas Death-Penalty Hearing

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Ana Campoy's Wall Street Journal update on the Harris County hearing. The defense attorneys for an accused killer are trying to restart a controversial hearing on the legality of the death penalty in Texas after the state's highest criminal court stopped it Tuesday at the request of prosecutors. The controversial hearing, which started Monday at a state district court in Houston, was expected to last a couple of weeks. The defense lawyers had asked the judge to rule that the way Texas applies capital punishment is unconstitutional because it carries high risks of executing innocent people. And: But the Harris County district attorney's office, which brought the case against Mr. Green, asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to halt the hearing, arguing that the district court has no authority to decide on the issue...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).