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A Strong Dissent From the 6th Circuit

By Steve Hall

"Judge: Kentucky case shows execution system unreliable," is the staff and wire report in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Misdeeds and mistakes in a Kentucky death penalty case show the legal system is unreliable for deciding if an inmate should be executed, a federal appeals court judge said Thursday.Judge Boyce F. Martin Jr., of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, said multiple problems in the case of 53-year-old Gregory L. Wilson led to a defense that was a ?charade,? a ?kangaroo court? and created ?a risk of bias? against Wilson.?Until we reform this broken system, we cannot rely on it to determine life and death,? wrote Martin, who repeatedly reference a Courier-Journal story describing a host of problems surrounding Wilson?s trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).