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Amarillo's Traffic Commission recommended that the City Commission extend the traffic ordinance that governs cell phone use in school zones to the entire city. The move came at the commission's meeting Wednesday afternoon and flew in the face of testimony from the public at two previous hearings. Click here for the current city ordinance as it relates to school zones.

Justifying the death penalty in Texas for even the most heinous of crimes has become impossible.

The latest posthumous exoneration comes from research at Columbia University and makes the convincing case that mistaken eyewitness identity sent Carlos DeLuna to his death at the hands of the state. The Texas Tribune reported on the case and noted that this wasn’t the first time an investigation of DeLuna’s execution ascertained he was most likely innocent. And “most likely” is key here, because, as we know, the standard for conviction in a criminal trial is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Texas has witnessed 41 exonerations, although not all of them were capital cases. Nevertheless, any time a citizen is denied life or liberty by the state, the standard must be the highest possible.