Yesterday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals - the state's highest criminal court - decided to stay the lethal injection of Hilberto Chi, a 28-year-old Honduran man convicted of killing a men's store manager in Arlington back in 2001. This ruling comes one week after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether a specified form of lethal injection constituted the infliction of "cruel and unusual punishment," a practice prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. Last......

Adorably swollen former U.S. Congressman and blogger Thomas Dale Delay received a bit of good news today. The Statesman is reporting that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Texas has decided to uphold a lower court's 2005 decision to dismiss felony charges against Delay and his politickin' and redistrictin' homies, Jim Ellis and John Colyandro. The 2005 dismissal held that the state's conspiracy statutes would cover election codes in September of 2003, well over......

The results are in from the Democratic and Republican primary runoffs. Valinda Bolton doubled Jason Earle's vote count in the Texas House District 47 Democratic runoff. Jeff Fleece defeated Don Zimmerman's by less than 200 votes in the Texas House District 50 Republican runoff; while Rep. Terry Keel's 14-year run of election success ended Tuesday when incumbent Judge Charles Holcomb slithered ahead in the Republican runoff for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Statewide......

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused Monday to intervene in the prosecution of DeLay on money-laundering charges. This comes two days after he abandoned his hopes to reclaim the job of majority leader for the U.S. House of Representatives. Currently Reps. Roy Blunt and John Boehner are set to duke it out over who should take over as majority leader. It finally looks like the gangsters are turning on one of their own.......