Thursday, September 3, 2009

Must Read



Thanks to O'Leary for recommending this haunting but incredibly well-researched piece in the current issue of The New Yorker.

Trial by Fire
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann

If you don't have time to kick through the entire piece, here's the Cliff Notes version from Bob Herbert in The New York Times...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/opinion/01herbert.html?hpw

1 comment:

Brian Steixner said...

Was this the basis for the movie Backdraft starring a young Kurt Russell?