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
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
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,
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
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.
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
