June 19
TEXAS:
How many doses of lethal injection drugs does Texas have?
With execution drugs in short supply across the nation and increasing secrecy
about the companies that provide them, The Texas Tribune is keeping track of
movement in the state’s supply.
06 doses expire June
April 26
TEXASimpending execution
Death Watch: Was Dexter Johnson Condemned by His Own Attorney?Inmate's new
co-counsel seeks to terminate longtime attorney for bad lawyering
Dexter Johnson isn't going to die without a fight. The 30-year-old, who suffers
from brain damage
June 26
TEXASimpending execution
Houston serial killer denied clemency 2 days before scheduled execution
With 2 days to go before his scheduled date with death, Houston serial killer
Danny Bible on Monday lost out on a bid for clemency.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Aug. 14
TEXASimpending execution
Texas Readies to Kill Man - Who Killed No One - for Murder Jeffery Wood on
track to be the 'least culpable person executed in the modern era of death
penalty'
His execution is scheduled for Aug. 24, which is "just 5 days after his 43rd
April 5
TEXASimpending execution
'Vampire' killer who scalped 12-year-old boy then drank his blood to be
executed tomorrow
A murderer who cut the throat of a 12-year-old boy, drank his blood and
sickeningly mutilated the body will be executed tomorrow.
Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38,
March 23
TEXAS:
With support of US Supreme Court, Texas authorities execute mentally ill man
Adam Kelly Ward, a severely mentally ill Texas man sentenced to death for the
2005 murder of 44-year-old Michael Walker, was executed Tuesday evening by
lethal injection. Ward, 33, was the 9th
March 22
TEXASimpending execution
U.S. Supreme Court considering whether to spare Texas man from
executionSupreme Court weighs whether to exectute man
The U.S. Supreme Court was considering whether a Texas man who killed a city
worker in 2005 should be spared from a lethal
Oct. 6
TEXASexecution
Texas executes inmate for killing man in $8 robbery
A convicted killer in Texas was executed Tuesday for fatally shooting another
man in a robbery that yielded just $8.
No late appeals were filed for Juan Martin Garcia, who was lethally injected
for the
Aug. 6
TEXAS:
NICARAGUAN NATIONAL FACING EXECUTION IN TEXAS
Bernardo Aban Tercero, a Nicaraguan national, is scheduled to be executed in
Texas on 26 August for
a murder committed in 1997. The poor quality of the legal representation he
received at trial and
during state-level appeals
July 30
TEXAS:
Living without the death penalty in Texas
Texas has gone nearly 7 months into 2015 without imposing the death penalty. In
some cases, juries declined to send another convicted killer to Texas' death
row, opting instead to put them behind bars for life.
It's part of a
May 12
TEXASimpending execution
Convicted killer of 3 in Houston asking for execution delay
Derrick Dewayne Charles was a convicted burglar wanted by authorities for
ignoring mandatory meetings with his parole officer when he was arrested for
killing his 15-year-old girlfriend,
Jan. 3
TEXAS:
Executions under Rick Perry, 2001-present-279
Executions in Texas: Dec. 7, 1982-present518
Perry #scheduled execution date-name-Tx. #
280Jan. 15--Richard Vasquez---519
Nov. 1
TEXASnew death sentence
Man gets death penalty in 1980 Texas slaying
A man who once did pesticide work at a Central Texas woman's home has been
sentenced to death for her 1980 slaying in a cold case solved with DNA
evidence.
Steven Thomas was sentenced Friday in
Sept. 11
TEXAS:
Death Watch: The Capital Aggrevation QuestionDoes Lisa Ann Coleman deserve
to die?
On Friday, Sept. 5, the Office of Capital Writs (the state agency charged with
representing inmates appealing a death sentence) filed an application for
retrial with the Texas
May 14
TEXASimpending execution
Texas to execute man for Houston officer's slaying
When Houston police arrested Jeffrey Demond Williams for gunning down a
plainclothes officer working an auto theft assignment, the slain officer's
handcuffs dangled from one of Williams' wrists.
April 21
TEXASimpending execution
Despite prosecutor's deal with snitch, Cobb loses appeals
Richard Cobb was just 18 when he and a friend, 19-year-old Beunka Adams, robbed
the B-D-J's convenience store in Rusk, taking 2 female clerks and a customer
hostage. The pair drove the 3
Nov. 3
TEXASimpending execution
Hank Skinner, Texas Death Row Inmate, One Week From Execution Despite Untested
Evidence
A week from yesterday, Texas death row inmate Henry Hank Skinner is scheduled
to be executed for the 1995 murders of Twila Busby and her 2 adult sons.
If
Oct. 24
TEXAS:
Prosecutors Not Worried About Death Row Cases Review
Prosecutors do not believe a review of cases where people may have been
wrongly convicted because of mistakes made by the Houston police crime lab
will affect the outcome of 24 death penalty cases, KPRC Local 2 reported
May 28
TEXASimpending execution//female
Texas woman on death row still represents rarity
Cathy Lynn Henderson is set to become 12th woman executed since 1977
Henderson convicted in death of infant she was babysitting
Henderson says death accidental; wasn't thinking straight when
May 7
TEXAS:
Executions on the upswing
At a time when execution chambers across the country sit unusually idle,
Texas is putting more Bexar County murderers to death than ever before.
This week's execution of a kidnapper who shot his victim over an open
grave will be the year's 4th for a
April 30
TEXAS:
Death Sentences on Mexicans Draw Scrutiny by U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether dozens of Mexicans on
death row are entitled to a new hearing because they weren't notified of
their right to seek consular assistance upon their arrest.
The
April 22
TEXAS:
Abolishing the death penalty
Call adds to hopeful signs
Re: Death no more We cannot support a system that is both imperfect and
irreversible, April 15 Editorials.
I applaud The Dallas Morning News. As the editorial points out, the death
penalty is both imperfect and
Jan. 31
TEXAS:
Texas executes man for killing 2
A man was executed Tuesday for killing his pregnant wife and mother-in-law
4 years ago.
Christopher Swift, who spurned appeals that could stop or delay his
execution, made no final statement.
Receiving the death penalty is what he's wanted
Jan. 15
TEXAS:
Texas will consider death penalty for repeat sexual predators
Texas lawmakers are talking tough about cracking down on sexual predators
who prey on children. Some propose the death penalty for repeat offenders,
potentially creating hundreds more death row inmates in a state
Sept. 27
TEXAS:
Nanny prosecutors link boy's injuries to beatingMcKinney: Expert
testifies marks on head match nails in cabinet door
Testimony in a Collin County courtroom Tuesday indicated that prosecutors
believe a 14-month-old boy's nanny beat his head against a kitchen cabinet
Sept. 1
TEXAS:
New trial date is set in Swearingen case
A judge set a Nov. 27 trial date this week for one of the men charged with
capital murder in connection with the January 2004 deaths of a Corpus
Christi man and woman.
This will be the 3rd trial for Darrell Lee Swearingen in
April 14
TEXAS:
A strange twist of justice for the killer of a high school teacher
Ronnie Joe Neal, a killer sentenced to die, remains more than 250 miles
from death row.
8 days after a jury rejected his claim of mental retardation, a doctor is
trying to determine his mental competency.
Feb. 15
TEXASimpending execution
4th condemned killer this year set to die tonightResponsible for
murders of 2 local cabdrivers, inmate blames childhood
Before he shot the United Cab driver 3 times in the head, his girlfriend
testified, Clyde Smith Jr. asked Victor Bilton about
Feb. 3
TEXAS:
DA withdraws death penalty from capital murder case
Gaines County District Attorney Ricky B. Smith will not seek the death
penalty in the murder case against Daniel Lee Flores, 30, who is accused
of killing his pregnant girlfriend in 2003.
Flores is accused of killing
Dec. 13
TEXAS:
19 convicted killers put to death in Texas in 2005
Pints of Blue Bell ice cream purchased for the men housed in the Polunsky
Unit of Texas' death row usually mean one thing - someone is about to die.
In what's become somewhat of a tradition, a condemned inmate preparing
Nov. 9
TEXASexecution
Convicted serial rapist executed for killing teacher
In Huntsville, a convicted serial rapist was executed tonight for the
strangling and attempted rape of a suburban Houston elementary school
teacher 12 years ago.
His voice choked with emotion, Charles Daniel
Sept. 12
TEXASimpending female execution
Does she deserve to die? Well, her trial lawyer doesn't know
Maybe Frances Newton shot her husband and two children to death in 1987.
Maybe she didn't. The public cannot be certain of her guilt, but she's
going to die for the crime anyway.
Sept. 11
TEXAS:
Women's deaths remain unsolvedPolice hope new sketches will aid cases
of 4 found in an area dubbed the 'Killing Fields'
More than 20 years after the body of a young woman was found in a field
near Interstate 45, authorities have made no arrests in connection with
her
June 26
TEXAS:
Death penalty unacceptable to victim's children
When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis,
Gretchen Burford and her husband were traveling in the South. Wanting to
mourn the slain civil rights leader, they went to a white church, but no
one
July 27
TEXASimpending execution
Condemned killer says DA failed to investigate abuse claimsDavid
Martinez requests new trial just days ahead of scheduled execution.
David Martinez, set to be executed Thursday for the 1997 rape and murder
of Kiersa Paul on the Barton Creek
July 15
TEXAS:
URGENT ACTION APPEAL
UA 222/04 Death penalty / Legal concern
July 15, 2004
USA (Texas)
Robert Aaron Acuna (m), Latino, aged 18
At a trial about to begin in Harris County, Texas, the
prosecution is intending to seek a death sentence against
Robert Acuna for a crime
Nov. 27
TEXASimpending execution
Evidence at Issue as Woman's Execution Nears - Lawyers for Frances Newton,
convicted of killing her family in Houston, seek new tests.
On an April evening in 1987, Adrian Newton and his 2 young children were
found dead in their northwest Houston
Feb. 17
TEXAS:
From Criminal Lawyer to Criminal
(Editor's note: The following is the 1st of 2 articles profiling one
lawyer's battle with addiction. The 2nd article will published
onNYLawyer.com on Wednesday, February 23, 2005.)
Keith Jagmin stood behind the counsel table in the 68th
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