Saturday Night Massacre, Business as Usual, or Both?
(c) Scott Langley An important hearing was supposed to take place in Texas today, but on Wednesday, September 30, Texas Governor Rick Perry abruptly replaced three members of the Texas Forensic Science...
View ArticleIs Ignorance the Best Policy?
UPDATE: The US Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Henry Skinner, at least temporarily. He has filed a petition to the Supreme Court, and if the Court declines to hear his petition, the stay...
View ArticleFlawed Science and New York Lawyers
Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted in 1991 and sentenced to die for an arson that killed his three children in Corsicana, Texas. Throughout, he insisted that the fire was an accident, and after his...
View ArticleDNA Test Exposes Execution Based on Bad Evidence
Claude Jones was sentenced to death based on one hair. That hair, prosecutors insisted, was his, and placed him at the scene of a 1989 killing at an East Texas liquor store. Now, 10 years after his...
View ArticleExperts Exclude Man As Killer, Execution Set Anyway
UPDATE: Larry Swearingen has been given a stay of execution! His case has been sent back to the trial court “to review and resolve the claims made” in a couple of habeas corpus applications. In this...
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