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Houston's Death Penalty Hullabaloo

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Robert Perkinson's post at Huffington Post.  LINK  Perkinson is the author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire, which will be released next week.Harris County Texas is the death penalty capital of the democratic world. It accounts for about 1 percent of the U.S. population but has carried out nearly 10 percent of the country's executions since 1976. So when a state district judge in Houston, Kevin Fine, unexpectedly ruled Texas's capital punishment procedures unconstitutional last week, it was a shot heard 'round the world.Attorneys for the defendant in the case, John Edward Green Jr., who is charged with killing a woman in a robbery and shooting her sister, praised the decision as "the beginning of the end of the death penalty in Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).