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News Coverage of Harris County Hearing - Day 1

By Steve Hall

"Legal Challenge to the Death Penalty Begins in Texas," is the title of James C. McKinley's report in today's New York Times. The death penalty went on trial Monday in Texas, a state where more prisoners are executed every year than in any other and where exonerations of people on death row occur with surprising regularity. Lawyers for John E. Green Jr., who stands accused of murdering a woman in front of her children, are arguing that the death penalty as carried out in Texas violates the Constitution because there is a high risk innocent people will be executed. The hearing stems from a routine argument defense lawyers make in most death penalty cases. Judges rarely grant the motion, however, because the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the death penalty as outside of the ban on cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2010 (boomark / email).