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The NRA’s push for more cops in schools won’t stop crime. But it could put more kids behind bars.

Louisiana Attorney General Says Angola 3 "Have Never Been Held in Solitary Confinement." →

Actually, they’ve been in solitary for 41 years.

Maybe he rounded down.

"The probability that the district attorney will advance a case to a penalty trial is more than three times as high when the defendant is African-American than for white defendants (this includes Mr. Buck’s case)." →

In death penalty cases in Texas’ largest county, justice was anything but blind.

So this happened. We’d say in no other other country on Earth is this story even possible, but that’s not quite right—it’s just us, Japan, and Kyrgystan.

20,000: Number of American inmates who are in prison for crimes they did not commit (conservative estimate) →

Stat of the day. More here.

Your Lunchtime Must-Read: How a rapist’s confession forced Rick Perry, champion of Texas justice, to pardon a dead man.

Update: Looks like we posted this twice. It’s that good, people.

When two Austin filmmakers set out to chronicle the flawed forensics behind the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, they found themselves in the middle of a pitched political battle, pitting criminal justice activists against the a Texas governor (Rick Perry) looking to sweep news of a wrongful execution under the rug. Joe Bailey and Steve Mims chat with MoJo about their new documentary, Incendiary.

"Ballistics evidence used to convict Davis has since been debunked. Another witness has since emerged as a plausible suspect in the murder. Three jurors on the case now say that if they knew then what they know now, they would not have voted to convict. Davis was quite possibly innocent, but that was hardly the point. As expressed by the popular Twitter hash-tag, the problem was quite simply that there was #TooMuchDoubt."

— The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis at 11:08 p.m. A few quick thoughts on how it happened, why it matters, and where we go from here.

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With Troy Davis set to be executed at 7 p.m. tonight, here’s a quick look at the state of public opinion on the death penalty. There’s good news and bad news.

BREAKING: Supreme Court halts controversial execution. →

SCOTUS granted a temporary stay to review the appeal of Duane Buck. At issue isn’t his guilt; it’s whether he was sentenced to death in part because of his race. Read our full report here.

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Texas’ Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice, Don Clemmer, later testified that his office didn’t have the resources to investigate allegations of sexual abuse at a TYC facility in Ward County because at the time the local agent was busy investigating charges of voter fraud by a 68-year-old Hispanic woman.

Your morning must-read: Why did Rick Perry wait six years to clean up the culture of child rape at Texas youth detention and rehabilitation centers?

The follow-up question no one asked Rick Perry about the death penalty. →

Actually, we have two takes on this.

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Depressing Chart of the Day: For the first time ever, the majority of federal felony convictions involved Hispanics—even though they make up just 16 percent of the total population.

In a sane political climate, Rick Perry's embrace of Texas' broken criminal justice system would end any shot at the presidency. We don't live in a sane political climate. →

Why Jamie Leigh Jones Could Lose Her KBR Rape Case

Here’s your morning must-read:

The allegations were explosive when they first hit in 2007: A 20-year-old woman named Jamie Leigh Jones alleged that four days after going to work in Iraq for contracting giant KBR in July 2005, she was drugged and gang-raped by fellow contractors. She accused the company, then a subsidiary of Halliburton, of imprisoning her in a shipping container after she reported the rape, and suggested KBR had tampered with some of the medical evidence that had been collected at an Army hospital. The harrowing story has made international headlines. It’s been the subject of congressional hearings and has inspired legislation. Jones even plays a starring role in the new documentary Hot Coffee, about efforts to limit access to the justice system.

Jones’ charges fell on fertile ground, compounding KBR’s reputation as a corporate scofflaw—all the more so when it came out that the firm’s contract had included a mandatory arbitration clause intended to block employees from suing it. Jones spent years fighting for a jury trial, and now, six years after the alleged attack, she is finally getting her day in court in a civil suit that accuses KBR of knowingly sending her into a hostile workplace. The verdict could come as early as Thursday. And—in a twist that’s likely to shock her numerous supporters—there’s a good chance she will lose.

Full story here.