Comments on: Unequal Justice: Perry Admits Medina Role in Willingham Execution http://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/19/unequal-justice-perry-admits-medina-role-in-willingham-execution/ Politics, Opinion and Culture, for Texas and Beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: In defense of Todd Willingham – Off the Kuffhttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/19/unequal-justice-perry-admits-medina-role-in-willingham-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-10951 In defense of Todd Willingham – Off the Kuff Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:55:48 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=2425#comment-10951 [...] general counsel to Rick Perry, Medina was involved in the decision to shrug off the last-minute report from Gerald Hurst debunking the forensic evidence against [...] [...] general counsel to Rick Perry, Medina was involved in the decision to shrug off the last-minute report from Gerald Hurst debunking the forensic evidence against [...]

]]> By: Todd Willingham's witch trial: the dreadful defense | Re:harmonizedhttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/19/unequal-justice-perry-admits-medina-role-in-willingham-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-9568 Todd Willingham's witch trial: the dreadful defense | Re:harmonized Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:28:51 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=2425#comment-9568 [...] general counsel to Rick Perry, Medina was involved in the decision to shrug off the last-minute report from Gerald Hurst debunking the forensic evidence against [...] [...] general counsel to Rick Perry, Medina was involved in the decision to shrug off the last-minute report from Gerald Hurst debunking the forensic evidence against [...]

]]> By: People Get Ready | Dog Canyonhttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/19/unequal-justice-perry-admits-medina-role-in-willingham-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-803 People Get Ready | Dog Canyon Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:07:15 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=2425#comment-803 [...] corporations such super-human rights that a merely human rape victim is denied her day in court. Gov. Rick Perry covers up the decision-making that may well have led to the execution of an innocent man. Lt. Gov. David [...] [...] corporations such super-human rights that a merely human rape victim is denied her day in court. Gov. Rick Perry covers up the decision-making that may well have led to the execution of an innocent man. Lt. Gov. David [...]

]]> By: Joyce L. Arnoldhttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/19/unequal-justice-perry-admits-medina-role-in-willingham-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-782 Joyce L. Arnold Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:36:42 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=2425#comment-782 NPR's All Things Considered had a piece on this today, October 21. It includes this:"Capital punishment is sacrosanct in Texas, which executes more inmates than any other state. No serious candidate from either party runs against it.So it was with some delicacy that Perry's opponent for the Republican nomination for governor, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, took on the Willingham case.... "'The point that Hutchison is trying to make about Rick Perry is that he's hurt the death penalty, weakened it, by making it look to people outside Texas — and a lot of people in Texas — that he's playing fast and loose with the death penalty," said Dave McNeely, a longtime political journalist in Austin.'"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114005470 NPR’s All Things Considered had a piece on this today, October 21. It includes this:

“Capital punishment is sacrosanct in Texas, which executes more inmates than any other state. No serious candidate from either party runs against it.

So it was with some delicacy that Perry’s opponent for the Republican nomination for governor, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, took on the Willingham case….

“‘The point that Hutchison is trying to make about Rick Perry is that he’s hurt the death penalty, weakened it, by making it look to people outside Texas — and a lot of people in Texas — that he’s playing fast and loose with the death penalty,” said Dave McNeely, a longtime political journalist in Austin.’”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114005470

]]> By: Suzannehttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/19/unequal-justice-perry-admits-medina-role-in-willingham-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Suzanne Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:16:20 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=2425#comment-759 Judas forking priest, this is wrong on so many levels -- I don't even know where to begin. If we still had a real DOJ... Judas forking priest, this is wrong on so many levels — I don’t even know where to begin. If we still had a real DOJ…

]]> By: RKCopeninghttp://www.dogcanyon.org/2009/10/19/unequal-justice-perry-admits-medina-role-in-willingham-execution/comment-page-1/#comment-754 RKCopening Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:48:58 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=2425#comment-754 When will we ever learn? The death penalty does not serve our humanity well When will we ever learn? The death penalty does not serve our humanity well

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