Balancing the Scales: Examining the Need for a Moratorium on Executions in Texas (2002)

This documentary was produced in 2002. Since it was produced, the U.S. Supreme Court has banned executions of people with mental retardation and people who were younger than 18 at the time of their offenses.

The video examines the death penalty process in Texas.

"Balancing the Scales" includes commentary and interviews with:

* Kerry Cook and Clarence Brandley - Exonerated death row prisoners.
* Jeanette Popp, mother of a murder victim.
* A professor of criminal justice.
* A former judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
* A former district attorney
* Rep. Harold Dutton - A Texas state representative
* And parents of prisoners executed by the state of Texas

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[Celizamite]

The one comment that i would make if Texan's and US Citizens want to ensure fair trials: stop having your judges looked upon as political representatives and have them chosen by their peers and by their legal ability and not by the general public.There is a need to separate the Law and politics, they are not the same. Apples and Oranges. The Law has to be treated without emotion as if one is a surgeon precise and to the letter. Not like a popularity contest as in Politics.

[bthedirtydog]

My hat is actually off to Texas. A big thanks for fighting the good fight against these thugs. I respectfully suggest that the makers of this documentary focus on stopping the barbaric acts of thugs and less about comforting the thugs. Ending the barbaric acts of thugs will do more to minimize the dp than bull shit propaganda and slogans. STICK TO YOUR GUNS TEXAS!!!!