Report: Texas executed wrong Carlos

A Columbia Law School team has published a report about two men named Carlos -- one who killed a woman, and another who was executed for that crime.

Columbia law report claims Texas executed an innocent man

Carlos DeLuna was executed in Texas for the brutal 1983 murder of young mother Wanda Lopez — but a new report from a Columbia law professor and his students may have definitively proved that the state sentenced the wrong man. read more

Columbia law article says Texas executed the wrong Carlos

This spring, the editorial board at the Columbia Human Rights Law Review dedicated its final issue of the year to one article about two men named Carlos. Carlos DeLuna, the authors believe, was executed in Texas for a crime committed by Carlos Hernandez, who looked so much like  …

Student moans

It’s Columbia Law School, LLP. After inquiries by The Post last month found that the post-graduate employment numbers presented by New York law schools appear to be inflated, the prestigious law school has changed how it reports job figures. On April 19, the school disclosed that it had funded...

Law School Study Suggests Wrongful Execution of Texas Man

The student editors of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review have devoted the spring 2012 issue of the journal to Los Tocayos Carlos , a book-length narrative by professor James Liebman and student co-authors that culminates with Texas’ December 7, 1989, execution of 26-year-old Carlos DeLuna.