Oct. 25
TEXASimpending execution
Next Execution: Halloween
Donnie Lee Roberts was addicted to both alcohol and crack cocaine and was under
the influence of a cocktail of both the night he killed his girlfriend Vicki
Bowen, with whom he was living back in October 2003. He begged her
Aug. 21
TEXASimpending execution
Balentine's execution date nears
He sits on death row awaiting a 6 p.m. Wednesday appointment in America's most
active execution chamber, hoping his attorney can persuade a court to grant
this 3rd stay of execution since a 1999 conviction for three
June 30
TEXASnew death sentence
Stanley Lamar Griffin gets death penalty in Hailey murder
A Brazos County jury gave the death penalty Friday to Stanley Lamar Griffin for
murdering a 29-year-old mother and violently assaulting her 9-year-old son.
Jurors deliberated for about 4 1/2
Nov. 5
TEXASimpending execution
Parolee set for execution for 1993 FW slaying
Convicted burglar Elkie Lee Taylor already was a known troublemaker in his
neighborhood near downtown Fort Worth when he and a partner were seen
leaving the home of Otis Flake, a 65-year-old mentally ill man.
June 20
TEXAS:
Death penalty defendant complains of Statesman coverage
Got a letter from Milton Dwayne Gobert this week. He's the Travis County
capital murder defendant facing the death penalty whose case will be heard
soon by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Gobert, 35, didn't like
March 29
TEXASexecution
Texas inmate executed for 2 1994 slayings
Hours after setting a fire in his cell to protest his punishment, a
Houston air conditioning contractor was executed tonight for the deaths of
2 Florida men gunned down in a dispute over missing drug money.
Roy Lee
March 26
TEXAS:
Man scheduled to die loses Supreme Court appeal
A convicted murderer scheduled to die later this year for beating his
ex-girlfriend in the head with a hammer and strangling her lost an appeal
Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gilberto Guadalupe Reyes, 33, is set to die
Mar. 2
TEXAS:
Guilty verdict in Taco Land murders
Jurors took just over four hours Thursday to convict Joseph Gamboa of
capital murder in the 2005 shooting and robbery at Taco Land- a bar that
was an institution for the live music scene in San Antonio.
Today, they'll begin hearing
Feb. 15
TEXAS:
Group wants state to transfer more than 100 defendants to hospital or
treatment facility.
Texas routinely violates the constitutional rights of people with mental
illnesses who have been accused of crimes by keeping them in jail longer
than necessary, claims a lawsuit
Jan. 8
TEXASimpending execution
Central Texas Death Row Inmate 1st of 5 Scheduled To Die This Month
Next week, a Central Texas death row inmate will be the 1st of 5 scheduled
to die in January. Carlos Granados is convicted of stabbing his girlfriend
with a kitchen knife, then
Nov. 20
TEXAS4 new execution dates set (including 1 female)
4 new execution dates have been set in Texas for early next year, 2007:
all should be considered very serious
Donald Miler, for February 27; Joseph Nichols for March 7; Vincent
Gutierrez for March 28, and Cathy Henderson
Sept. 6
TEXAS:
Injustice on technicality
Most of us probably agree that Texans who spend years in prison for crimes
they didn't commit should be compensated.
And most of us probably agree that includes the 35 residents of Tulia, a
small Panhandle town, who did time based solely on the
June 13
TEXAS:
Sister speaks during trial
Like her older brother Davontae, Destiny Williams was disciplined in the
family's east Arlington apartment. If she did something wrong, she was
spanked with a belt, hanger and sometimes an extension cord.
But for Tae Tae, as she called him,
May 13
TEXAS:
Judge allows defendant's statements in murder trial
Jurors in Rodolfo Creeper Medranos upcoming capital murder trial will
hear the alleged Tri-City Bombers recorded interview with police after his
arrest in connection with the Jan. 5, 2003, slayings of 6 men, a judge
ruled
July 22
TEXAS:
Schizophrenic's lawyers will get to fight execution
Lawyers for schizophrenic murderer Scott Panetti will get a chance to
argue in federal court that their client's mental illness makes him
incompetent to be executed.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks on Wednesday denied
Sept. 3
TEXAS:
Slain boy's mother, grandmother urge life sentence if man convicted
In Plainview, Johnny Rivera Jr., 25, learned Thursday morning that he will
not face the death penalty when he goes to trial on capital murder charges
for the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son.
At
Nov. 24
TEXAS:
Death row guard injured in spear attackAuthorities probing how weapon
got onto high-security prison
A condemned murderer on death row armed with a 25-inch, homemade spear
injured a prison guard Tuesday after narrowly missing another death row
prisoner he was trying to
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