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Why give Hasan what he wants — martyrdom?
Maj. Nidal Hasan, before the military judge at his court martial (file sketch) Lots of readers are taking shots at visit site to read more]
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You’d never see this in Texas — mercy for a mass murder suspect
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (file) Even in Massachusetts, one of the 18 states that have abolished the death penalty, I would not have guessed we’d … [visit site to read more]
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National Opinion Journalist of the Year – DMN’s very own Rodger Jones
Photo courtesy of DMN Assistant Editorial Page Editor Nicole Stockdale If I had a champagne glass in hand – and if we were allowed to drink … [visit site to read more]
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Should Dallas County be Texas’ death sentence capital?
Even as I find the Death Penalty Information Center a kind of alternate universe, there’s no denying that it managed to push its year-end report into a lot of mainstream media. As of Dec. 23, the DPIC...
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Responding to the gentleman from Flower Mound on the death penalty
Follow @rodgermjones My friend and editorial board colleague Mike Hashimoto, who typically makes it ever so clear that he … [visit site to read more]
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Dallas detective’s interrogation recalls errant tactics in exoneration cases
Hephzibah Olivia Lord, a Dallas woman who says she was falsely arrested for her boyfriend's murder. H. Olivia Lord sued Dallas Police Det. Dwayne A. Johnson, claiming he lied to the medical examiner...
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Keeping us honest about the death penalty
The Texas death chamber in Huntsville. (File photo) visit site to read more]
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If you see a crowd at the courthouse Friday, it’s those anti-death penalty...
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Anti-death penalty letter dropped off to DA Craig Watkins, but he didn’t take...
Anti-death penalty activists (from left) Lynn Walters, Jeff Hood and Wes Magruder talk about their meeting with a representative of the Dallas County DA's office Friday morning. In the background are...
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The Herman Sporting Goods murders — a tragedy without end
Joseph Roland Lave Jr., in court Last week I attended a retrial hearing for a death row inmate convicted in the Herman Sporting Goods double murder in … [visit site to read more]
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On Texas death row ‘sensation,’ and rest of the story from murdered victim’s...
Follow @rodgermjones Writer Hamilton Nolan of Gawker has a “letters from death row” project that both fascinates me and gives … [visit site to read more]
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Why do minorities oppose death penalty across U.S. but favor it in Texas?
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Challenging message from a pro-death penalty guy
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View ArticleDoes Oklahoma’s botched execution argue for firing squad?
Follow @rodgermjones Does Oklahoma’s botched execution argue for return of the firing squad? Would bullets to the heart provide the sure and swift execution that critics seem to insist on? I ask that...
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Clayton Lockett’s victim had a name: Stephanie Neiman
(Photo via News9.com, Tulsa, Okla.) Stephanie Neiman was 19 and … [visit site to read more]
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Could presidential politics produce reprieve for condemned killer?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (AP file photo) Follow @rodgermjones NOTE: A federal appeals court has stayed the execution … [visit site to read more]
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Was Willingham a ‘monster’? That doesn’t matter in questions of corrupted...
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Judge hearing Lave’s appeals sides with state in Herman Sporting Goods case
SLAYING SCENE--The Herman's World of Sporting Goods in Richardson, Texas, sits behind a police line on Nov. 27, 1992, after two teen-age employees were killed in a Thanksgiving Eve robbery that was...
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