Comments on: Whitmire to Call Senate Hearing on State Forensics Commission

By: MadDawgg

MadDawgg — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:27:16 +0000

Pete, no offense, but I can’t imagine how you could possibly think I was making excuses for the governor from my post. I wasn’t, and I think what happened needs a complete airing so that it never, ever happens again.

By: Forensics Expert Beyler Planned Public Airing; Perry Tried to Kill Agency Funding

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:42:17 +0000

[...] may get a chance to answer such questions publicly when Sen. John Whitmire holds a hearing on the matter before the Senate Criminal Justice Commission meeting he chairs. Whitmire has not [...]

By: Forensics Expert Beyler Planned Public Airing of Willingham Report | Dog Canyon

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:51 +0000

[...] may get a chance to answer such questions publicly when Sen. John Whitmire holds a hearing on the matter before the Senate Criminal Justice Commission meeting he chairs. Whitmire has not [...]

By: pete muldoon

pete muldoon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:42:39 +0000

MadDawgg,

Your excuses for the governor simply don’t work. It is the governor’s job to look at all available evidence before he allows someone in his state to be put to death. It is not optional. It’s what he is required to do. He is the last line of defense. He is the safety mechanism.

And when he received Beyler’s report, he ignored it. He just didn’t have time, and besides, those guys are all guilty anyway, right?

Well, it’s one thing for your average Texan to think that. It’s pathetic and wrong, but at least they aren’t charged with being the one, final person responsible for making sure innocent people don’t die.

This is not an unfortunate mistake. This is negligent homicide. And the governor should be charged right now.

There’s more on this case at the three links below:

http://www.guerillapost.com/2009/10/update-on-willingham-report.html

http://www.guerillapost.com/2009/09/john-jackson-defends-executing-innocent.html

http://www.guerillapost.com/2009/09/executing-innocent.html

By: Joyce L. Arnold

Joyce L. Arnold — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:06:15 +0000

It is indeed tedious, Glenn, the need to continue the corrections regarding generalized views of Texans.

By the way, Corrente has this piece up: “Rick Perry’s Handling of Willingham Case: Questions Go Back More Than 5 Years.” Sorry, I don’t know how to imbed a link, but the blog is at http://correntewire.com/.

By: Glenn W. Smith

Glenn W. Smith — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:55:16 +0000

Schieffer was pretty tough in his first statement about Perry scuttling the hearing.

By: Glenn W. Smith

Glenn W. Smith — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:40:27 +0000

Interest around the nation and world is high. God, it gets tedious having to tell the rest of the world over and over that most Texans aren’t what they think of us.

By: Joyce L. Arnold

Joyce L. Arnold — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:39:56 +0000

Does anyone know if any of the Democrats gubernatorial nominee wannabes have offered comments? I’m wondering about the possibility of this incident opening up a long over-due and honest conversation about the death penalty in general, especially in light of advances in forensics.

I join your hope, MadDawgg, that Senator Whitmire will shine a very bright light.

By: Sonny Collie

Sonny Collie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:29:28 +0000

Glenn, you’re doing good work pulling together all the scattered threads of this story.

Keep your Dog Canyon readers up to speed, and we’ll be there to help with calls letters and emails when it will help move the ball.

This thing stinks to high heaven, and it is only the latest way the guv has found to humiliate and embarrass Texans.

By: Eye on Williamson » Items of interest from around Texas

Eye on Williamson » Items of interest from around Texas — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:12:29 +0000

[...] Also Glenn Smith has a great wrap-up of the latest in the Willingham case. [...]