Monday, March 27, 2017

Duane Buck: Texas: Catch-up: Houston Press: Supreme Court Gives Duane Buck a New Chance to Appeal His Death Sentence..."Duane Buck has long argued that a Harris County jury sentenced him to death by lethal injection partly because of racial prejudice after a psychologist called by his own attorney testified that Buck was more likely to commit more violent crimes because he is black. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Buck, the Houston man who brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 1995, may continue to appeal his death sentence. "

 
STORY: "Supreme Court Gives Duane Buck a New Chance to Appeal His Death Sentence," by reporter Dianna Wray, published by The Houston Press on February 22, 2017. (Dianna Wray, a nationally award-winning journalist, is a staff writer at the Houston Press. Born and raised in Houston, she writes about everything from NASA to oil to horse races.)


http://www.houstonpress.com/news/supreme-court-gives-duane-buck-a-new-chance-to-appeal-his-death-sentence-9220173