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Tag Archives: Texas
Texas Man Won’t Face Charges For Beating His Daughter’s Attacker to Death
A grand jury has decided not to charge a Texas man (whose name is not being disclosed in order to protect his daughter’s identity) who beat a man to death after he caught him sexually assaulting his 5-year-old daughter (described in some news accounts as 4 years old). It’s questionable … Continue reading
Giving Kids Guns, and Letting Soldiers Shoot At You
Gun Range Plans to Host Children’s Parties: Why yes, in fact, it is in Texas Get Paid For Letting Soldiers Shoot At And Beat You: The Picatinny Arsenal, an Army research and development facility in New Jersey, is hiring human guinea pigs to be attacked with rubber bullets, lasers, batons … Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Lets Stand Texas ”Pole Tax” on Strip Clubs
Monday (January 23), the Supreme Court announced it will not hear a challenge to Texas’s Sexually Oriented Business Fee Act — popularly and inevitably known as the “pole tax” — letting stand the Texas Supreme Court ruling upholding it (see earlier article below). This does not bode well for the … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Bickel, Managing Editor, Court Rulings, Editorials, Polls
Tagged First Amendment, polls, Supreme Court, Texas
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Why Texas Death Row Inmates Will No Longer Get Their ”Last Suppers”
Last night, before Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed for the 1998 murder of James Byrd (see story), he ordered a final meal of two chicken-fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, fried okra, three frajitas, a pint of ice cream, a pound of barbecue, a pizza… and more. … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter Side, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged Death Row, executions, last suppers, Texas, Weird World of Crime
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You Be the Jury: Tragic Death, or Manslaughter?
Last month in Texas, 79-year-old Dolores Grissom died from heatstroke two days after somebody stole the central air conditioning unit from her home. Now, I may be missing something here… but if the people who stole the unit are caught, shouldn’t they be tried, not just for theft, but for … Continue reading
