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Monday, August 29, 2016

The world's most dangerous lawyer retires

Houston defense lawyer Jerry Guerinot announced his retirement from death-penalty cases this month. He has a perfect record: all 21 of his clients received the death penalty and ten have been executed so far. He pointed out that "gang members, serial killers, and sociopaths" were entitled to representation, too, and that he has also taken more than 500 other criminal cases cases to trial. [Associated Press 8-13-2016]

More baffling to me than the string of losses are why people kept signing up. . .

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Friday, December 13, 2013

The last public execution in the United States (circa 1936)

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

This is a photograph of the last public execution held in the United States ( so far), circa 1936.

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