StandDown Texas Project
The Project identifies and advocates best practices in the indigent criminal justice system. The blog pays particular attention to issues involving capital punishment and the administration of the death penalty.
Author: Project director Steve Hall was chief of staff to the attorney general of Texas from 1983-1991; he was an administrator of the Texas Resource Center from 1993-1995. He has worked for the U.S. Congress and several Texas legislators. Hall is a former journalist.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Death Penalty • Public Defenders • Sentencing/Post Conviction • States • Texas
Recent Posts from StandDown Texas Project
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Friday
Lots of programming today at Net Roots Nation. I'll do some live blogging from the Austin Convention Center; posts will resume later today. At 9:00 am, a panel with John Dean and Cass Sunstein should…
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More on the Oklahoma Clemency Bid
The Oklahoman yesterday reported, "Clemency bid for Kevin Young brings 30-day execution stay." Gov. Brad Henry on Tuesday granted a stay of execution for Kevin Young, 43. Young had been scheduled to die by lethal…
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Additional News Coverage of World Court Ruling
National Law Journal has a web-only report, "International court urges U.S. to prevent scheduled executions." In the ongoing international legal dispute between Mexico and the United States over Mexican nationals on death row, the state…
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Texas Response to World Court Ruling
The Houston Chronicle reports, "Texas still plans to execute killer despite U.N. order." Texas will go ahead with the scheduled Aug. 5 execution of Houston rapist-killer Jose Medellin despite Wednesday's United Nations world court order…
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Net Roots Nation
I'm going to the Austin Convention Center for the opening day of Net Roots Nation. I'll likely do some live blogging from the conference. Posts will resume later today. The exhibit hall is on the…
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Missouri Lethal Injection Procedure Constitutional
"Federal judge upholds Missouri execution procedure," is the report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Missouri's lethal-injection procedure is not cruel or unusual punishment, possibly ending a series of lawsuits…
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Defense Cries Foul on Yogurt Shop DNA
That's the headline of Jordan Smith's latest report in the current Austin Chronicle. LINK Here's an extended excerpt: In a new motion filed Tuesday, July 15, lawyers for the two defendants in the yogurt shop…
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Rodney Reed
Also in today's Austin American-Statesman, "Attorney files to submit more evidence in death row case." The attorney for death row inmate Rodney Reed filed a motion Wednesday asking an appeals court for a new trial…
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David Lee Powell
The Austin American-Statesman reports, "Cop killer loses appeal." The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, in Adobe .pdf format, is here. A man convicted and sentenced to death for killing an Austin police officer during…
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Reaction to World Court Ruling
A news release has been issued by attorneys involved in the litigation. Here's an extended excerpt: Mexico’s request as a vindication of that institution’s faith in the United States’s political will and ability to enforce…