[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, PENN., S.C., FLA., OHIO

2018-02-14 Thread Rick Halperin
Feb. 14 TEXASimpending execution Texas father makes personal plea to spare condemned son's life With his son's execution 9 days away, Kent Whitaker met Tuesday in Austin with the chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to personally request mercy for the child

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, PENN., S.C., FLA., OHIO

2014-12-17 Thread Rick Halperin
Dec. 17 TEXASnew death sentence Texas ex-justice of the peace sentenced to death for revenge murder A Texas jury on Wednesday sentenced to death a former justice of the peace convicted of murdering a suburban Dallas prosecutor's wife in a revenge plot, with the judge saying he

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2014-12-15 Thread Rick Halperin
Dec. 15 TEXAS: Defense expected to call 17 more witnesses in punishment phase of Kaufman DA murder trial The defense team is expected to wrap up its case today in the sentencing phase of Eric Williams' capital murder trial. Williams was convicted Dec. 4 of killing Cynthia