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Of assessment that goes into that. in that assessment is how can we define whether or not an individual is a future danger to the community. and there's really no way for us to tell that. we don't have any tools, we don't receive mental health assessments. we are prosecutors. we are lawyers. we don't have any way of truly assessing future dangerousness but by looking at an individual's record. now, it's come out that this individual was previously arrested for a robbery with a firearm as a juvenile when he was just 14 years old. now, i will tell you that i can't discuss the disposition of the ...

A Texas jury sentenced Melissa Lucio to death on July 22, 2008. Just this week, lawyers filed a petition for Commutation of Death Sentence to a Lesser Penalty or, in the Alternative, a 120-Reprieve from Execution, arguing that Lucio is factually innocent of taking her daughter, Mariah’s, life.

We have given people a different option, a different outlet. but unfortunately you can't legislate against future dangerousness, you can't say i suspect you might do something wrong, therefore i'm going to charge you with a crime. in our american judicial system, there is just no way to do that. so there's no law you can enact that is going to get inside of somebody's head and say if you're thinking about doing something, we can charge you with a crime. but there are public policy laws where if someone is thinking about doing it and expressing it, perhaps we can get public health people involv...

Males when they commit the same crimes. even though the professor was naive enough to explicitly mention race the reality is that we have been implicitly using race as a factor for a very long time. >> jeff, what they're saying in not granting a new hearing is that this guy was a defense witness and that makes some sort of a difference? >> not. the jury hear what is the injury hears regardless of who is putting forth the witness. the other factor here is texas has an unusual death penalty law in that the issue of future dangerousness is important. unfortunately, that law leads to all sorts of ...