Archive for May 2014
Rhetoric Aside, Most Inmates Have Cell Phones
Over at Grits for Breakfast, is a post discussing that, while cell phones are rampant in Texas prisons, there are few prosecutions. The writer references a comprehensive story about the number of cell phones seized in Texas versus few actual prosecutions for those offenses. The Texas Tribune reports: Prison officials said one challenge was linking the…
Read MoreHarvard Medical Professor would Take Firing Squad over Lethal Injection
A professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School told the Washington Post that “Given these recurring problems with lethal injections, if I had to be executed, I would choose a firing squad.” That article and one in the ABA Journal details the problems with supply of lethal injection drugs throughout the nation.
Read MoreCongrats to Jeff Davis, Champion of Judicial Ethics
Jeff Davis has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the State Bar of Georgia. Before that, he was the Director of the Georgia JQC, the agency that governs ethics and Georgia judges. Georgia lawyers and citizens should be proud. I don’t know much about the JQC from before Mr. Davis was its director,…
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