Capital Defense Weekly

link dump

I’m out the door for a few days. Here are some links I’ve been thinking about:

• via DPIC Exonerations from Death Row Linked to Inadequate Defense

• Exonerated Having Trouble Getting Exonerated By Radley Balko on Innocence

• Cuba ceases fire, for now from AI’s Death Penalty Blog. “Cuba’s death penalty is usually carried out by firing squad but Cuba is ceasing the fire. Past Monday, new Cuban President Raul Castro announced that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of 3 people charged with terrorism.”

• “ostensibly color blind” – the drug wars are not by open resource

• One Fewer Inmate on Indiana’s Death Row, One More Family That Can Begin Healing by InCASE

• TCASK notes, “Curtis McCarty Speaks in Knoxville“

• Standdown looks at an “Evangelical Voice on Baze“

• Jamie Spencer outs a criminal pretense attorney

• CLTV! we’re still not on it, Donzell, however, is.

• Anne Reed has this post from last week, Finding Good Blogs, which has only served to reinforce why I think every male blawger has a crush on her,

• Politics on the Supreme Court–What the Numbers Say by Brian Tamanaha. His thesis, 5 of the top 10 most conservative justices inthe last 70 years are currently on the Court

• finally, the funniest story title in some time“MILF blames govt for crisis in peace talks”