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2014-06-18 Thread Rick Halperin
June 18 TEXAS: Marching Through The Desert To End The Death Penalty It's 93 degrees in Texas today. And Rev. Jeff Hood is walking 200 miles across the state. What would compel somebody to do that? He wants to end the death penalty... and he is not alone. Rev. Jeff Hood is a Southern B

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2013-07-20 Thread Rick Halperin
July 20 TEXASnew death sentence Man gets death penalty in 1992 killing of 6-year-old It took more than 2 decades for Angelo Garcia's mother to see her 6-year-old son's killer sent to death row. On Friday, she said it was worth it. "It's the greatest news, and it took 21 years,"

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2018-02-04 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 4 TEXASimpending execution Texas man vowed to forgive whoever killed most of his family; then he learned it was his son Rage and faith warred inside Kent Whitaker as he lay in a hospital bed with a 9mm bullet hole 6 inches from his heart. It was December 2003, and the pillar

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2013-08-28 Thread Rick Halperin
Aug. 28 TEXASimpending execution see: http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-robert-garza (source: change.org) PENNSYLVANIA: Amanda Hein: Mum 'killed baby and hid body in bar's toilet'; The 26-year-old then carried on drinking with her friends, it is claimed A

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2017-06-17 Thread Rick Halperin
June 17 TEXAS: Larry Fitzgerald, face for Texas death row, dies at 79 Larry Fitzgerald, former Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman, sits on the sofa in his living room in what had been his quarters in Huntsville. He witnessed more than 200 executions during his 8 years as t

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2019-03-21 Thread Rick Halperin
March 21 TEXASimpending execution Death Watch: “Texas 7” Member Contests “Law of Parties”A robbery ended in a police officer death while Patrick Murphy waited outside. Current Texas law holds him responsible. If the state has its way, 57-year-old Patrick Murphy of "Texas 7"

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2018-02-07 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 7 TEXAS: New punishment trial begins for convicted murderer Stanley Griffin Convicted murderer Stanley Lamar Griffin returned Tuesday to a Brazos County courtroom where a second jury will hear punishment testimony to decide his fate -- a hearing that comes almost 6 years after he

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2016-07-08 Thread Rick Halperin
July 8 TEXAS: British woman on Texas death row may be spared as new evidence surfacesA hearing this week for Linda Carty presents her with hope that she might avoid death penalty amid evidence prosecutors coerced false witness testimonies A British woman who has been on death row

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2017-04-13 Thread Rick Halperin
April 13 TEXAS: Death Row Inmate Rodney Reed Loses DNA Appeal The state's top criminal appeals court is refusing to allow additional DNA testing of evidence in the lengthy Central Texas death penalty case of Rodney Reed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals says the request by Reed's

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2015-02-20 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 20 TEXAS: Rodney Reed From Death Row: "I'm Not Giving Up" About 4 hours east of Bastrop, in the small town of Livingston, is a maximum security prison better known as death row. For the past 17 years, it's been Rodney Reed's home. He spends about 22 hours each day in a cell, cl

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2018-01-06 Thread Rick Halperin
January 6 TEXAS: Man, 18, Arrested in Christmas Eve Homicide Damarcus Antwon Williams, 18, mugshot from the Irving Police Department. An 18-year-old man is behind bars, accused of fatally shooting a 17-year-old in the chest during a drug deal on Christmas Eve. Irving police said 17

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2016-04-07 Thread Rick Halperin
April 7 TEXAS: Executions under Greg Abbott, Jan. 21, 2015-present19 Executions in Texas: Dec. 7, 1982present-537 Abbott#scheduled execution date-nameTx. # 20-June 2---Charles Flores538 21-June 21---

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2019-07-30 Thread Rick Halperin
July 30 TEXAS: DA's Office Seeking Death Penalty Against Alleged North Side Murderer The man who is charged with shooting and burning 2 men in Northern San Angelo may get the death penalty. In the early morning of March 20 police responded to 4800 block of North Chadbourne where