If John Marion Grant had told Oklahoma how to kill him, he would still be alive. @ebruenig reports on the "fresh madness" of Oklahoma's latest death-row execution. https://t.co/gscT6ooT0i
Texas is locked in conflict with traditional Christian practice, where rites for the sick, condemned, and dying disrupt the preferences of executioners, @ebruenig writes. https://t.co/pAAKECgzns
WOW this is huge: The first texas execution in 10 months and the prison system says they accidentally made an “error” and forgot to let the media in.
No. Media. Witnesses.
#breaking The judge in the Clint Young case has just sided with the defense & recommended a new trial, according to sources in the courtroom. No documents entered yet, but I'll tweet them when I get them.
Now, the case heads to the CCA to decide whether he gets a new trial.
Atty Stmt re: #RubenGutierrez; judge allows DNA testing, but State continues to oppose: “…there can be no reason [for the State] to continue to refuse our reasonable requests for this testing.” Read more here: https://t.co/JSdp9VFTFd
#BREAKING The next prisoner scheduled for execution in Texas - Edward Busby - just got a stay over concerns that he might be intellectually disabled.
He was scheduled to die in seven days.