August 15
TEXASstay of impending execution
Federal court stops execution of Dexter Johnson within 24 hours of his
scheduled deathIn his recent appeals, Johnson has claimed he is
intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty. He was
convicted of a
August 8
TEXAS:
2-year moratorium on death penalty proposedKoch suggests plant ot study
financial, social moral costs of sentence
A Dallas County commissioner raised the idea of putting a 2-year local
moratorium on the use of the death penalty to give the county time to study
August 28
TEXAS:
Death row is not for mistakes
A "mistake."
This is how murder ("the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with
malice aforethought") is defined in a recent column titled "U.S. Should Follow
Pope's Leadership on the Death Penalty" by Anna Arceneaux, a
August 5
TEXAS:
Death penalty sought in Higgins death
Jury selection is set to begin Jan. 5 in the capital murder trial of a
career criminal charged with the death of Laura Powell Higgins on Dec. 19,
2002.
We will be seeking the death penalty in this case, Harris County
Prosecutor Denise
