Texas Tribune: The Texas Tribune: Call for a New Execution Date Revives Race Debate
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Death row inmate Duane Buck, Texas Department of Criminal Justice photo
Updated noon, Feb. 18: The Harris County district attorney’s office agreed Monday morning at a hearing in a state district court to give attorneys for death row inmate Duane Buck 30 days to file with an application, asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to review his sentencing trial. The application, said Kate Black, one of Buck’s attorneys, will include arguments that Buck was unfairly sentenced to death after testimony suggested that he was more likely to be dangerous because he is black. If the state’s highest criminal court rejects the application, the district attorney’s office will again move to set an execution date. …
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