June 29
TEXAS2 new execution dates
Execution dates set for 2 more Texas death row prisoners
2 more Texas death row prisoners — a North Texas man man who stabbed his family
and an Aryan gang member from El Paso who strangled a woman — are now scheduled
for execution this year.
April 7
TEXAS:
The death row killers who refused to die quietly and had to be gassed out of
their cells then strapped down during executionFormer crime reporter
Michelle Lyons, who witnessed nearly 300 executions in Texas, US, reveals the
desperate acts of death row prisoners who r
November 13
TEXASimpending execution/foreign national
Texas Prepares for Execution of Mexican National Robert Ramos on November 14,
2018
Robert Moreno Ramos is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm CST, on Wednesday,
November 14, 2018, inside the Walls Unit execution chamber at the Hun
August 13
AUGUST 13, 2018:
TEXAS:
Closing arguments expected Monday in 'honor killings' death penalty trial
Prosecutors Monday are expected to weave together more than 20 years of bad
acts to convince a Harris County jury to sentence a Jordanian immigrant to
death for killing his
Aug. 25
TEXAS:
Jeff Wood's Stay of Execution Casts More Doubt on the Texas Death Machine
Terri Been was being interviewed by a reporter inside a Whataburger restaurant
in East Texas on the afternoon of August 19 when the text came in: Her brother,
Jeff Wood, on death row for his alle
May 5
TEXAS:
Vigils object to executions
Re: The Placido Rodriguez column "Bishop says God's gift of life is sacred,
abandon culture of death," A-J, April 30.
It was encouraging to read the column in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that
explained powerful reasons to abolish the death p
May 20
TEXAS:
Death penalty still a blight on the soul of Texas
The death sentence handed down by a jury to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev has brought the issue of capital punishment to the forefront of the
nation's conscience once more.
Of course, here in Texas, executing
July 21
TEXAS:
Penalty trial opens for police officer's killer
Testimony resumes in Houston as prosecutors seek the death penalty for a
23-year-old man convicted of capital murder in the Christmas Eve killings 2
years ago of a Houston-area police officer and an auto body shop owner.
May 27
TEXAS:
Death penalty trial begins this week for alleged Barrio Azteca member; Alleged
gang memeber Fidencio Valdez faces the death penalty if convicted
An alleged Barrio Azteca gang member, accused of killing 2 men in separate
slayings in 2010, will be on trial beginning this we
Dec. 10
TEXAS:
San Antonio rapper on death row loses appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a San Antonio rapper
sent to death row for slitting the throat of a recording engineer during a
session 14 years ago.
The ruling Monday, without comment, clears the way
Sept. 22
TEXASimpending executions
Man set to die next week in Texas loses appeal
A federal appeals court has refused to stop next week's scheduled
execution of a former Army recruiter convicted in the rape-slaying of a
woman in Fort Worth more than 10 years ago.
Cleve Foster is s
Sept. 8
TEXASnew death sentence
Britt Ripkowski has been given an execution date of Feb. 20, 2013; it should be
considered serious.
(sources: TDCJ & Rick Halperin)
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The District Attorney's Corner: Demolition of the death penalty
The 60's and the early 70's were
July 26
TEXASimpending execution
Druery Denied Competency HearingDefense attorneys say schizophrenia keeps
this inmate from understanding why he's being executed
Although Marcus Druery has been hearing voices for years, believes that he and
his cell on Texas' death row are
Feb. 8
TEXAS:
Attorneys: DA saga taints death penalty retrial
Defense lawyers for Carl Wayne Buntion, whose death penalty retrial is set to
start next week, want to postpone the case - or get a special prosecutor.
They didn't file the 11th-hour request because of a surprise witness or
Jan. 27
TEXAS:
Jury resumes deliberations on death penalty in Rockwell capital murder trial
The jury resumed deliberations at 8:45 a.m. Friday in whether convicted killer
Kwame Rockwell should receive the death penalty or life in prison for the
shooting death of a convenience store cle
Jan. 30
TEXASnew execution date
Derrick Johnson has received an execution date for April 30; it should be
considered serious.
(sources: Texas Department of Criminal Justice & Rick Halperin)
MISSISSIPPI:
Maben man faces death penalty in murders
In Starkville, prosecutors say th
Jan. 3
TEXAS:
7 executions set for January
7 executions to be carried out at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Walls Unit have been scheduled throughout the month of January.
The first execution, that of Curtis Moore, is scheduled for Jan. 14, and
the final of the six executions t
Nov. 11
TEXAS---impending execution
Harris County man to die for slaying 14 years ago
When mechanic George Whitaker III told a friend she wouldn't be seeing him
anymore because he was planning to kill someone, she later would tell a
Harris County jury she dismissed the statement as a jok
Aug. 28
TEXAS:
Attorneys ask to move up inmate Hood's hearing, set for after execution
A state district judge has scheduled a hearing on whether to require
depositions from the judge and prosecutor in the Charles Dean Hood death
penalty trial, but the hearing is set for 2 days after his
May 15
TEXAS:
Cop killer gets death penaltyAthens jury hands down verdict in murder
of deputy
Randall Wayne Mays on Tuesday was sentenced to die for the May 17, 2007,
fatal shooting of Henderson County Sheriffs Deputy Tony Ogburn.
Ogburn, 61, was 1 of 2 HCSD officers killed after res
May 14
TEXAS:
Man convicted in shooting death of deputy gets death penalty
A man convicted of killing an East Texas deputy in a shootout that claimed
2 law enforcement officers was sentenced to death Tuesday.
Randall Wayne Mays, 48, was sentenced by the same jury that convicted him
Friday
May 13
TEXAS:
U.S. Supreme Court turns down Texas death row inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the conviction and death
sentence of a Texas death row inmate condemned for fatally injecting a
fellow inmate with heroin while both were in the El Paso County jail.
The cour
May 4
TEXAS:
United Methodists Call for Abolition of the Death Penalty in Texas
The Worldwide United Methodist Church sent a message to Texas during the
General Conference held in Ft. Worth, TX. The General Conference passed a
resolution calling for the specific abolition of the death penal
Jan. 1
TEXAS:
Abolish the death penalty
Texas continues to lead the nation in execution numbers, now more
spectacularly than ever. This year marks the 1st time that our state's
execution total exceeds half the national toll. Texas must stop the
ghastly practice of killing people, especial
Oct. 27
TEXAS:
Lawyer says AG aides pressed for executionHe says he was given 6
minutes to file appeal with Supreme Court
THE EXECUTION OF MICHAEL RICHARD
Times are approximate
Sept. 25
9 a.m. U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to the chemicals used
in lethal injections by
July 11
TEXASexecution
O'Brien executed for rape, slayings of Houston girls
Condemned murderer Derrick Sean O'Brien was executed in the Texas death
chamber this evening for the torture, rape and strangling of 2 teenage
Houston girls 13 years ago. O'Brien was 1 of 6 members of a fledgling
July 11
TEXASimpending execution
Convicted killer of teenage Houston girls set to die
Randy Ertman's been waiting for more than a decade to make the trip
Tuesday to Huntsville.
"I'm going to be there with bells on," Ertman says of the scheduled
execution of Derrick Sean O'Brien, conde
July 6
TEXAS:
Death penalty opponents call for creation of innocence commission
Opponents of the death penalty in Texas, joined by the sister of a Corpus
Christi man who may have been executed for a murder he did not commit,
called on Texas officials Thursday to establish a commission t
July 6
TEXAS:
Problems in crime lab undermining justice
The majority of criminal cases adjudicated in Bexar County each year
result in probated sentences.
It also happens throughout the state and country. There are not enough
jails and prisons to house all those who confess or are convict
July 2
TEXAS:
Penry death penalty case festersConvict's questionable mental level
leads to 3 overturned sentences
Nearly 27 years ago, Johnny Paul Penry shattered the peace of this small
East Texas town by brutally raping and killing Pamela Moseley Carpenter in
the bright light of morni
April 13
TEXAS:
Long-unsolved slaying blamed on railcar killer
Almost 15 years after a man was slain here, the long-unsolved crime has
been pinned on the confessed "Railcar Killer" already on death row.
The July 19, 1991, slaying of Michael White was the work of Angel Maturino
Resendiz,
March 28
TEXAS:
Houston man set to be executed for refinery worker's death
The robbery plan was simple but brutal. Jerome Harville would be
distracted by his girlfriend while her cousin sneaked into the Exxon
employee's home. Once inside, the cousins would kill Harville and ransack
the p
March 28
TEXASimpending execution
Houston man set to be executed for refinery worker's death
The state is scheduled to put Kevin Kincy to death tomorrow for the March
1993 robbery and slaying of a Houston-area refinery worker.
Kincy was a pizza delivery driver and cousin of Jerome
Dec. 14
TEXAS:
His name is Ruben M. Cantu, he was framed, and we killed him
If Ruben Cantu had been sentenced to life in prison, he would be a free
man today.
He would have his freedom not because he served enough time to earn parole
from the 1984 incident that put him behind bars. Cantu
Dec. 13
TEXAS:
Advocates say Texas needs innocence panel
53 years after he was executed for murder in England, George Kelly's name
was cleared in 2003 after an independent commission reviewed his case and
referred it back to the courts.
There is no such commission to consider the case of
Dec. 7
TEXAS:
Brenham man's attorneys ask for new trial
Attorneys for a Brenham man on death row have asked an appeals court for a
new trial, claiming new evidence has been found and that prosectors
withheld key evidence in the case.
Anthony Graves has been on death row for more than 1
Dec. 4
TEXAS:
No more mistakesOne wrongful Texas execution is too many
2 years ago, Hollywood released The Life of David Gale. Its fictional
protagonist is a professor and anti-death-penalty activist in Austin who -
after a couple of bizarre events - finds himself mistakenly convicte
Sept. 12
TEXASimpending female execution
Parole Board Declines To Commute Houston Womans Death Sentence
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 7-0 Monday against commuting
the death sentence of Womens Death Row inmate Francis Newton, 40, whos
scheduled to die by injection Wednesd
April 3
TEXAS:
New Trial Centers on Questions of Death Penalty So Far
Ricky Joseph Langley wanted a new trial after being convicted of murder,
and he got it.
But now his lawyers are arguing about just how new they want the trial to
be. The lawyers for Langley are opposing the prosecutor's
Feb. 19
TEXAS:
Capital Murder Defendant Testifies Against Lawyer's Advice
Often sobbing, a 30-year-old Kazakhstan woman told a San Antonio jury
Friday that her live-in boyfriend beat and sexually abused her.
Asel Abdygapparova, who testified against the advice of her lawyers, took
the wi
Feb. 9
TEXAS:
23-year-old convicted of Northeast woman's 2002 strangling
Justen Grant Hall was convicted Tuesday of strangling a Northeast woman
with an electrical cord more than 2 years ago.
Hall, 23, was found guilty of capital murder by a jury in the 34th
District Court after about 3
Jan. 5
TEXAS:
In Texas, Oversight for Crime Labs Is Urged
Facing 2 recently freed prisoners who each spent 17 years behind bars
because of false scientific evidence, Texas senators on Tuesday pointed
fingers of blame and urged oversight that could position the state at the
forefront of nat
Dec. 27
TEXAS:
Committee says insanity standard works; release guidelines need work
Recent crimes involving horrible facts and fatal results - including the
drowning of five children, fatal beating of 2 with rocks and a 6-year-old
whose body was found in an oven - have Texas legislators th
Sept. 21
TEXASexecution
Ex-gang leader executed for clerk's death--Man killed in '93 after
refusing to surrender car keys
Contrite condemned killer Andrew Flores, 32, was executed this evening for
fatally shooting a San Antonio convenience store clerk during a $45
robbery 11 years ago.
July 22
TEXAS:
Police search for man suspected of killing convenience store clerk
Police are searching for a man suspected of killing a convenience store
worker with a knife late Monday before going on a robbery rampage.
Two women were arrested on charges of capital murder and armed robber
July 13
TEXAS:
Man ruled incompetent to stand trial in asphyxiation of 6-year-old in oven
Attorney says defendant doesn't comprehend crime
In Beaumont, a judge ruled Monday that a man accused of killing a
6-year-old boy whose body was found in an oven is not competent to stand
trial.
Dur
July 15
TEXAS:
Charges dropped in McKinney murders
Capital murder charges were dropped Thursday against 3 suspects arrested
in connection with the slayings of 4 McKinney residents after police
determined the physical evidence was insufficient to link them to the
crime.
McKinney police sai
June 30
TEXASexecution
Prisoner in 'Thin Blue Line' Put to Death
In Huntsville, a man whose false testimony sent an innocent man to death
row before the 1988 documentary "The Thin Blue Line" cast doubt on the
evidence was executed Wednesday for an unrelated murder.
"Sir, in honor of
June 21
TEXAS:
Condemned killer has hearing today
A Texarkana, Texas, man hopes today's federal court hearing will pave the
way to overturn his capital murder conviction.
Julius Jerome Murphy, 24, is presently on Texas' death row for the Sept.
19, 1997, robbery and killing of Jason Erie,
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