I let my subscription to TM lapse earlier this year, when the "Best Steaks in Texas" issue came out. In it, Smith editorializes about how he is a staunch vegetarian, and how the photo of steak on the cover "grosses him out". This is the editor of Texas Freaking Monthly. What a douchebag.

A few questions regarding Craig Watkins and DNA exoneration:

1) Is Craig Watkins spending 1/10th as much time putting criminals behind bars as he is investigating past convictions?

2) If DNA evidence can prove that a person is not guilty, can it also prove that a person is guilty? If that's the case, can we just skip the trial by jury and scientifically convict or exonerate the accused when DNA evidence is available?

3) Isn't it possible that a person could be an accomplice to a violent crime without leaving behind DNA evidence?

He talks of how bad Henry Wade's prosecutors were.....then why did he promote one of them to supervisor who was responsible for convicting several of the ones who we know now are innocent???????

Watkins is full of it. He makes the accusation that prosecutors under Henry Wade "purposefully went after INNOCENT people." That is a dangerous accusation. Since he has made it then he needs to prosecute those ex prosecutors. That is a crime to purposefully prosecute innocent people. Those are Watkins words so he needs to indict those people.

If he is just puffing up for politics then he should shut up and not make such accusations.

The total of exonerations was 13 under previous adminstrations not 12 as watkins claimed.

Watkins promoted two prosecutors to top supervisors who were Wade's guys and involved in wrongfull convictions cases from the past.

Watkins says he doesn't care about the press and anyone that follows him in the press knows that it a lie. He can't stand anyone trying to criticize him and always responds with editorial pieces to defend any position.

Watkins now says he has a problem with the death penalty. Why the hell does he keep going for it? If he had any guts he should take a stand. He won't say the death penalty is wrong because he's not sure how it migtht hurt him politically. What a hypocrite

In the interview Mr Watkins does say that these innocent people were prosecuted on purpose knowing they were innocent. Since he says it I am sure he believes it. He should announce an investigation and prosecute these ex prosecutors. Put them in prison.

Of course if the truth is that these convictions were becuase of faulty eye witness testimony then Mr. Watkins should cease making these false claims against former prosecutors and try to gain poiltical clout elswhere