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

Attorneys for Robert Roberson filed a Notice of New Evidence with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on October 6, 2025, bring­ing to light new evi­dence uncov­ered by NBC’s​“Dateline” pod­cast, released on the same day as the fil­ing, that they say sub­stan­ti­ates a pend­ing judi­cial mis­con­duct claim in his case. This fil­ing comes just nine days before Mr. Roberson’s sched­uled exe­cu­tion on October 16, 2025. According to the fil­ings, Larry Bowman, the mater­nal grandfather of…

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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…