16 March 2010 :

Judge Kevin Fine rescinds anti-death penalty ruling. A Texas judge criticized for declaring the death penalty unconstitutional took back his controversial ruling today but scheduled a hearing for next month to hear evidence on the issue. State District Judge Kevin Fine said he wants more information before making a final decision about whether the state's death penalty statute allows for the possible execution of an innocent person. Fine is a judge in Harris County, which sends more inmates to death row than any other county in the nation. During a court hearing Tuesday, Fine rescinded the ruling he made last week in granting a pretrial motion in the capital murder case of John Edward Green Jr., accused of fatally shooting a woman and wounding her sister during a June 2008 robbery. (see March 4).