Continuing coverage of capital (in)justice, Texas-style

Providing additional coverage of the various Texas death penalty issues making headlines, this Houston Chronicle story examines why the Supreme Court has had to consider repeatedly capital cases arising from the Fifth Circuit.  Read together with a similar article making the front page of today’s NY Times (discussed here), it should be clear to everyone what capital litigators have known for a long time: Texas, especially in death penalty cases, has its own brand of justice.

Relatedly, this Village Voice article by Nat Hentoff provides another review and lament of the role that AG nominee Alberto Gonzales played in Texas capital justice when advising then-Texas Governor Bush on clemency petitions. (Additional background on this issue can be found prior posts entitled The AG and the death penalty and AG nominee Gonzales and sentencing issues.)