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this week’s edition.

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Leading off this edition: No new opinions of note are had this edition. In the news, NPR’s Fresh Air has an exceptional piece interviewing David Dow discussing his Autobiography of an Execution. In a sign of the times, Gabriel Gonzales returned to the same Bexar County courtroom Monday where, 13 years earlier, a jury had condemned him to die for killing a pawnshop owner during a robbery, this time . Gonzales received life. In Maryland, key changes to the public defender service appear to be working their way through the state legislature. In Pennsylvania the issue of the cost of the death penalty is again causing many community leaders to ask whether the death penalty is worth the cost. Finally, in the words of DPIC: Henry Skinner is scheduled for execution in Texas on February 24 despite the lack of DNA testing of critical evidence from the crime scene that could lead to his exoneration...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).