Topic: Carroll Pickett

from Steve James and Peter Gilbert ("Hoop Dreams") is a documentary on the death penalty in Texas. Indeed, the thread about De Luna ends up getting only the second most screen time. Pickett - described by a Texas newspaper as "27 degrees to ...

so, the adventure begins

Its official, I will be entering our local jail to assist and observe female prisoners' anger management group. Either way, tomorrow is a new day, and new tasks will be at hand.On a little side note, regardless as to whether you ...
Moments from execution a few death row prisoners fall silent, some craft a speech of elegant final words and some make desperate pleas of innocence, more say sorry or address their family.Because of the rituals of organized execution in the United ...

Witness in death

The case against De Luna was weak from the start: De Luna insisted that the killing was committed by Carlos Hernandez, a criminal acquaintance who physically resembled him-an assertion later proved correct by Chicago Tribune reporters Maury Possley and Steve Mills, who ...