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A murder in Hearne, Texas
The as yet unsolved 2008 murder of Hank Alan Johnson in a motel room in Hearne, Texas is a story that will break your heart. He seemed like a great kid…I wish I had known him. July 21 will make two years since his murder. While I cannot fathom the pain, anguish and sense of [...]
Texas Congressmen Joe Barton & Michael Burgess should go!
Self-interest and politics in Texas suckle one another like a parasite with its host; the demise of the host of no consequence to the parasite until it is too late. There could not be more evidence to that reality than Congressman Joe Barton’s apology fiasco combined with fellow Texas Congressman and energy committee member Michael [...]
Hersarling's Texas-size Whopper
A Texas-size Whopper Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling, at a nationally televised meeting of House Republicans in Baltimore, accused President Obama to his face of running up deficits a dozen times greater than the GOP’s. The president said, “That’s factually just not true, and you know it’s not true,” and he invited “any independent fact-checker out [...]
Maddow strikes back at Dick Armey’s nonsensical attack
On her show Tuesday evening, Rachel Maddow responded to derogatory jibes made about her earlier in the day by former House majority leader Dick Armey during the AFP-sponsored ‘Code Red’ anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill.
Ernest Willis and Cameron Todd Willingham
Texas Monthy has and a thought provoking piece: Separated At Death Ernest Willis and Cameron Todd Willingham had a lot in common: same crime, same sentence, same questions about the forensic science that convicted them. The main difference? Willis is still alive.
Texas Gov. Perry halts investigation into execution of innocent man.
In what many will see as a blatant CYA (Cover Your Ass) political move; the Dallas Morning News reports Texas Governor Rick Perry announced September 30 that he had removed three members of a key forensic panel charged with reviewing arson evidence in the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham (left). A public hearing on a report [...]
State of Texas executed an innocent man in 2004.
A recent New Yorker features this breathtakingly tragic by David Grann about Cameron Todd Willingham, a Texas man who was sentenced to death for starting the fire that killed his three kids. Grann’s piece points to evidence that more or less invalidates the entire case against Willingham, and exposes the shoddy “fail-safes” that are supposed [...]
