Entries tagged with “Brian Wharton”

Oct 07, 2025

New Evidence Revealed in ​“Dateline” Podcast Points to Judicial Misconduct in Robert Roberson’s Case Just Days Ahead of Execution

**October 9, 2025 UPDATE****: On October 9, 2025, just a week before his sched­uled exe­cu­tion, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) grant­ed** **Robert Roberson** **a stay of exe­cu­tion and remand­ed his case to the dis­trict court for fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tion of his request for relief based upon relief offered in a sim­i­lar case,** ***Ex parte Roark******.*** **Like Mr. Roberson’s case,** ***Ex parte Roark*****, also involved a con­vic­tion based the now dis­cred­it­ed​“Shaken…

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Aug 12, 2024

New York Times Video Op-eds Highlight Systemic Flaws in the Capital Punishment System, Including Mistakes from Junk Science and Lack of Closure for Victims’ Families

In the sec­ond and third videos of The New York Times’ three-part series,​“The Fallibility of Justice,” Brett Malone, whose mother’s killer remains on Louisiana death row, and Texas death-sen­­tenced pris­on­er Charles Don Flores pro­vide their per­spec­tives on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. The New York Times has con­sis­tent­ly called for abo­li­tion of the death penal­ty, describ­ing it as​“full of bias and error, moral­ly abhor­rent, [and] futile in deterring…