Capital Punishment In Texas

Hour 1:           How does Texas decide who will die for their crimes, and how might the state keep from executing innocent people? We’ll take an in-depth look at capital punishment in Texas this hour with Jennifer Laurin, professor at the University of Texas School of Law. She led a two-year American Bar Association study called “Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Texas Capital Punishment Assessment Report.”