Oct. 5
TEXAS:
Death-Row Inmate Gets 1 Last Chance
A Texas inmate can argue that his death sentence is invalid because prosecutors
did not disclose their deal with a jailhouse snitch who testified that he had
confessed to murder, a federal judge ruled.
A Harris County jury convicted
Oct. 5
TEXASimpending execution
Texas Set To Execute Inmate Who Murdered A Man Over $8Juan Garcia is
scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday for fatally shooting a man
during a 1998 robbery in which he stole $8.
Texas is set to execute Juan Martin Garcia on October 6
Aug. 20
TEXAS:
Media Advisory: John L. Balentine scheduled for execution
Pursuant to a court order by the 320th District Court of Potter County, Texas,
John Lezell Balentine is scheduled for execution after 6 p.m. on Wednesday,
August 22, 2012.
On April 16, 1999, a Potter County
July 23
TEXASnew execution date
Preston Hughes has been given an execution date for November 15; it should be
considered serious.
(sources: Texas Department of Criminal Justice Rick Halperin)
Executions under Rick Perry, 2001-present-244
Nov. 6
TEXASimpending execution
Texas man on death row has 'no illusions': wife
Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner, set to be executed Wednesday, has no
illusions about his fate despite pending appeals, his French wife said
Saturday.
Anti-death penalty activist Sandrine
Sept. 7
TEXAS:
Perry 'squashed' Texas execution probe, ex-official says
In February 2009, Sam Bassett got called to Gov. Rick Perry's office.
Bassett was then chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, an agency
set up in 2005 to regulate state crime labs after a series of
Jan. 6
TEXASnew execution date
Dale Scheanette has been given an execution date of Feb. 10; it should be
considered serious.
(sources: Texas Department of Criminal Justice Rick Halperin)
GEORGIA:
Staples cuts deal, dodges death penalty trial
An Athens man avoided a death
May 22
TEXAS:
Quintero didn't expect to be spared after slayingHe expresses regret
for killing, concern about his own safety
Almost 2 years ago, Juan Leonardo Quintero predicted in a jail house
interview that he would be sent to the death chamber for shooting Houston
police officer
August 1
TEXAS:
Condemned Waxahachie man loses appeal
A federal appeals court has turned down the appeal of a North Texas man
condemned for a robbery where two employees of a Dallas video store were
shot to death, moving the convicted killer closer to execution for a crime
that occurred
June 2
TEXAS:
Feds investigate Austin policeJustice Department to review use of
force
The U.S. Department of Justice is launching an investigation into the use
of force by Austin police officers, city officials announced late Friday.
The investigation will include a review of how
March 26
UTAH:
Prison rejects murderer's claim of tortureGardner complains of pain
linked to arthritis
Prison officials say death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner is not being
tortured in prison, contrary to the convicted murderer's claim in federal
court on Monday.
Gardner, 46, is
August 14
TEXAS:
Convicted murderer appeals 1996 ruling
Sentenced to death for the brutal sex-related slayings of a 68-year-old
grandmother and her 4-year-old blind granddaughter, Jose Noe Martinez
found himself back in a Hidalgo County courtroom Friday for an appeals
hearing.
Martinez,
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