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Editorial: Finally, Texas does right by Alfred Dewayne Brown Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Alfred Dewayne Brown, 33, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in October 2005. After 12 years imprisoned, his conviction was overturned after the discovery of evidence substantiating his alibi.Marie D. De Jesus, Staff / Houston Chronicle There may be no worse act a government can commit against one of its citizens than to sentence him to death for a crime he did not commit. But in the case of Alfred Dewayne Brown, the state of Texas has been tireless in its efforts to outdo itsel...

On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Alfred Dewayne Brown is entitled to monetary compensation from the Texas Comptroller’s Office due to his near decade on death row for a crime investigators later found he did not commit. Back in 2005, Brown was convicted of murdering Houston Police Officer Charles Clark and sentenced to death. But in 2014, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out Brown’s conviction after a Harris County detective found phone records that corroborated Brown’s alibi, which Harris County prosecutors were aware of but never shared with Brown’s...

Republican. >> credit where credit is due. this came to light in 2002 in the modern glare looking at how, what a violation of human rights this was, how this is really the ugly side of reproductive, state-sponsored reproductive control. >> uh-huh. so there's a sort of connection to folks that are considering themselves pro life that say this is precisely the ugliness that we stand opposed to? >> i suppose you could see it that way. you could also see it the denial of reproductive autonomy for people considered unfit, particularly african-american women have long been subject to this kind of co...

Same excuse when the slaves were alive. the strategy was to run out the clock. it was the same then and the same today. >> north carolina created the eugenics board tasked with sterilizing mentally diseased or fetal minded people. its business was every bit as ugly as its name suggests. >> there are some people that i didn't know that i know what i was finding. >> john raley of the "win some salem journal" has been investigating the program over a decade. >> the north carolina eugenics board for 45 years ran bun of the most aggressive forced sterilizations in the country. >> pamphlets encourag...

sent back. more importantly, they may not make it. >> it's a crisis that has inflamed the anti-immigration base of the republican party and has created the political conditions in which republicans can finally admit to doing what they have wanted to do all along, and that is is kill immigration reform. we will talk about that in just a moment. near the border, though, the first lady of honduras, anna garcia de hernandez is visiting immigration facilities and detention centers where thousands of hondurans are being held. she says her country is working to return hondurans to their cou...