by John Floyd | Jun 22, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Death Penalty
The State of Texas has executed 595 people since 1982—far more than any other state in the nation. Texas also leads the country in the probability that it has executed ten innocent men since 1989. During the same period, there have been 499 exonerations of innocent...
by John Floyd | May 31, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Junk Science
In 2013, with an increasing number of wrongful convictions—many of which were based on flawed forensic evidence (“junk science”) such as disproven arson investigation techniques, bite mark analysis, misapplied bloodstain pattern analysis, and shaking baby...
by John Floyd | May 18, 2025 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform
We recently posted a piece about how local Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) has once again lobbied the Texas Legislature during its 2025 session to gut the Michael Morton Act—a 2013 act designed to prevent wrongful convictions—in a manner that would resurrect the kind of...
by John Floyd | May 16, 2025 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed strict bail policies and legislation in recent years under the disingenuous title of “bail reform.” The governor has even called for a constitutional amendment that would prevent judges from setting any bail for certain...
by John Floyd | Mar 21, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform
They are killing H. Rap Brown. Born Hubert Gerold “Rap” Brown in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in October 1943, he morphed into one of America’s leading Black dom fighters in the 1960s. His journey into political activism began at age 15 when he organized...
by John Floyd | Feb 9, 2025 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform, Criminal Law
Various media reports show that gun homicides, mass shootings, and gun violence all decreased in 2024 as compared to 2023. In fact, gun violence decreased in most of the nation’s largest cities. But in campaign debates and political ads in virtually every state and...
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