$5 Million Settlement Ends Case of Tainted Texas Sting

"Five years after 46 people, almost all of them black, were arrested on fabricated drug charges in Tulia, Tex., their ordeal will draw to a close today with the announcement of a $5 million settlement in their civil suit and the disbandment of a federally financed 26-county narcotics task force responsible for the arrests."

This is the sort of "legal error" in Texas underlines the urgence of overhauling the court system and stopping the death penalty. Texas is to justice what Florida is to elected democracy.