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Andrea Lyon on the Harris County Hearing

By Steve Hall

Shortly before the hearing was halted, Andrea Lyon posted, "Silence as Assent," at Huffington Post. Something extraordinary is happening in Texas. A trial judge is holding hearings and listening to evidence about whether that state's death penalty is unconstitutional because of the risk of wrongful executions. Lawyers for John E. Green Jr., who stands accused of murdering a woman in front of her children, are arguing that the death penalty as carried out in Texas in fact violates the Constitution because of the risk of executing innocent citizens. Those of us who defend death penalty cases do raise this issue in court, but it is routinely denied and evidence is not presented. Instead, trial courts say that the United States Supreme Court has said that the death penalty is not unconstitutional as being cruel or unusual...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 08, 2010 (boomark / email).