The Innocence Project of Texas

The Innocence Project reports that Texas Death Row inmate, Larry Swearingen, has been granted a stay  of execution.  Swearingen was scheduled to die by lethal injection tomorrow in Huntsville, Texas.
The Innocence Project reports on their blog that:
The federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today granted Texas death row inmate Larry Swearingen a stay of execution [...]

The State of Texas currently provides exonerees $50,000 per year for each year that they were incarcerated on a wrongful conviction ($100,000 if they were sentenced to death).  However, the compensation statute requires that exonerees who apply for compensation waive all rights to civil litigation in their cases.  In addition, high tax rates on the [...]

The Dallas Morning News reported today that:
After two years of delays, Dallas police have dropped out of a study designed to determine the best method for showing photo lineups to crime witnesses.

Instead, the department will change its policy to adopt a technique that was to be highlighted in the study. The new approach, called the [...]