Atlantic Unbound Archive

Alan Berlow

Recent articles by Alan Berlow

September 8, 2008

Travesty in Texas

"The case of convicted double murderer Charles Dean Hood raises deeply disturbing questions about the state's administration of justice."

September 11, 2008

A Legal Affair

Convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood has been granted a stay of execution. But the fact—confirmed at last—that the judge and the prosecutor on his case had "an intimate sexual relationship" has not been addressed.

July/August 2003

The Texas Clemency Memos

As the legal counsel to Texas Governor George W. Bush, Alberto R. Gonzales prepared fifty-seven confidential death-penalty memoranda for Bush's review. The memoranda suggest that Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues in the cases at hand.