StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Another life gone because of bad law," is the Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial. It appeared in the Friday edition. On Nov. 19, Robert Lee Thompson, 34, became the 23rd person to be executed in Texas this year. He should still...
Pardon Power (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Patrick McCann has written an excellent editorial for the Houston Chronicle regarding the clemency process in that state. McCann and Rodney Brown recently convinced the State's Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a life sentence for Robert Lee Thompson . But, as McCann puts it, "Gov. Rick Perry declined to follow the advice of his own appointees and did not exercise his powers of...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... Бульба (Taras Bulba) , the main text of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 version with Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis, and also three other adaptations including a silent film by Aleksandr Drankov in 1909. And it's not so much this tale of a legendary Zaporozhian Cossack that arouses controversy, but the novel's rather peculiar gestation itself: there are two versions,...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
LCFA Cups dominated the fixtures and in the Premier Cup John Shortall’s Seymour went through in style, beating Salisbury 4-1 thanks to Tony Denson and Lee McArdle doubles.
