Post Tagged with: "texas"

• Two Executions: Two Reasons for Opposing the Death Penalty

  By Noah Kaplan, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Race and Immigration September 22, 2011 7:57 am no comments

  While the world watches and waits for news on Davis, Lawrence Russell Brewer was put to death in Texas. Brewer is one of the men who, in 1998 in Jasper, Texas, dragged James Byrd, Jr. behind his truck. As easy as it is to hate Brewer, to hate the terrible crime that he committed, to hate his hate, his victim’s son, Ross Byrd, doesn’t want to see him die. “You can’t fight murder with murder.”

   
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  [Update] Supreme Court Won't Review Duty To Cheer For Your Rapist

  Criminal Justice, Education, First Amendment, Issue Areas, Original Content September 13, 2011 1:40 pm 18 comments

  The Supreme Court has declined to take the case of a Texas high school cheerleader who was kicked off the squad after refusing to cheer for the basketball player whom she alleges raped her. The Fifth Circuit ruling not only upheld the school’s right to punish her for refusing to cheer, but dismissed her suit as frivolous, requiring her family to cover the school’s legal fees.

   

• Texas Study Takes Hard Look At School-To-Prison Pipeline

  By Noah Kaplan, Criminal Justice, Education, Issue Areas July 20, 2011 4:10 pm 2 comments

  It turns out it may the schools, and not the kids, who are causing the discipline problems. A new study from Texas tracked every Texas seventh-grader from 2000, 2001, and 2002 for six years or more to examine the interaction between school discipline, poverty, race, and the juvenile justice system.

   

• Texas to Execute Foreign Citizen After Vienna Convention Violation

  Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Issue Areas June 28, 2011 11:13 am 5 comments

  As the New York Times reported yesterday, time is running out for Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr., who is scheduled to be executed in Texas on July 7. Convicted of a 1994 murder and aggravated sexual assault, Leal, a Mexican citizen, was not notified of his right to contact his consulate pursuant to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and subsequently sentenced to death. The treaty violation could have been the difference between life and death.