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A man convicted of killing two people in Dallas in 2001 died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, despite pleas to stay the execution from a man who survived an attack by the murderer.

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District Judge Lee Yeakel upheld the execution of convicted killer Mark Stroman on Wednesday afternoon. Yeakel said in a court order that he lacks jurisdiction to interfere with executions and the criminal justice system would be corrupted if the court granted Stroman clemency.

Wall Street Journal:

The Obama administration Wednesday asked Congress to end the disparity in penalties for use of crack- and powder-cocaine crimes, a stance sure to bring on contentious debate from the law-enforcement community.

Katherine Antwi Green, an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Texas System, has been named director of Equal Opportunity Services (EOS) at The University of Texas at Austin.

She has also worked as general counsel for the Texas Commission on Human Rights and as an assistant attorney general in the [...]