Death Row, Pandas and Blogs

Radley Balko is trying to make a difference. He is actively trying to draw attention to the interesting case of Cory Maye (pictured right), who was arrested for shooting a cop during a drug raid at his house. Cory Maye is on death row, and Balko is trying to gain attention for what he feels is an injustice by blogging and recruiting bloggers to comment on the case. Will it work?

Couldn't hurt.

The blogosphere is comprised of hundreds and hundreds of political blogs, ranging from the far left to the far right. Aside from personal journals, politics is probably the most popular topic on the internet. Hopefully movements like this one will increase political activism and open some eyes.

One site that the article mentions is Battle Panda, which is an nice little blog that I can see myself frequenting.

One interesting aspect of this case is that there are very few items in Lexis Nexis about the case, but lots of blogs. This goes to show the ease of getting things posted to the web.