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I was a member of the jury that found Jesse Jacobs guilty of murder in 1987. I learned only recently that the Texas prosecutors had changed their theory of who was directly responsible for the gunshot that murdered Urdiales. To say that I found that news troubling would be a...
I recently recalled this arcane tidbit from adolescence past, as I leafed through my trusty courses of Instruction. With a generous stay of execution (i.e. a 9th term), I was hoping for a couple of cool courses to finish out my academic career.
At 12:02 a.m. last Wednesday, he was strapped to a gurney in Huntsville state prison, his arms pierced by needles attached to intravenous tubes that would carry a lethal dose of metabolic poison moments later. Jacobs, 44, devoted most of his last earthly words to protesting the injustice of...
He was not the only one who found the circumstance of his execution implausible, if not illegal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court curtly dismissed his final appeal by a vote of 6 to 3, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling...
Would that the United States legal system abided by this standard of humanity and decency. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused a stay of execution for Jesse Dewayne Jacobs, a Texan who did not commit the murder of Etta Urdiales, for which he was tried and convicted in 1987. On...