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Texas Tribune Interviews David Oshinsky

By Steve Hall

Brandi Grissom of the Texas Tribune conducts the interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning UT scholar.  Oshinsky's latest book is Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America.It's titled, "David Oshinsky: The TT Interview."  It's a must-listen.It's not the fact Texas has executed more people than any other state or even the recent DNA-provoked questions about whether innocent men here have been put to death that make the state's use of the ultimate punishment scandalous, says Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University of Texas at Austin history professor David Oshinsky. It's the fact that the condemned in Texas have so few resources to defend themselves against prosecutors who have become experts at sending criminals to their death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).