January 1, 2018
TEXAS:
Report: Bexar County juries don't like the death penalty
Juries are becoming more and more reluctant to hand out death sentences
throughout Texas, but especially in Bexar County, according to a new report by
the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
June 3
TEXAS:
Life after death-row case: Both sides search for justice as 22-year Cook saga
ends
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in The Dallas Morning News on
Feb. 21, 1999.
"You cannot put things back together when you inherit a case with material
misconduct," said
April 29
TEXAS:
Democrat proposes repeal of death penalty; Measure faces uphill battle in
GOP-run Legislature
Texas lawmakers will hear testimony on a bill to repeal the death penalty.
A Democratic lawmaker from Houston has introduced the measure, and the House
Criminal
July 31
TEXAS:
Marcus Druery: Another questionable Texas execution Will Texas execute a
man who thinks speakers broadcast his thoughts and Kim Kardashian was a witness
to his crime?
Marcus Druery, a 32-year-old Texas death row inmate, suffers from schizophrenia
so severe that
June 29
TEXAS:
Locals react on death penalty ruling
Barely a year after Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law this state's
version of Jessica's Law last year's legislation that brought the death
penalty into play for repeat child sexual predators a Supreme Court
ruling on a Louisiana
July 2
TEXAS:
10th Court chief justice must control anger
Lady Justice is usually portrayed as blindfolded, a sword in one hand and
a perfectly balanced scale in the other. The idea is that justice is meted
out swiftly, fairly and without favor or prejudice.
For our system of laws and
June 11
TEXAS:
Prosecutors weighing death for man charged in slaying
In Edinburg, Hidalgo County prosecutors are contemplating seeking the
death penalty against an Alabama man charged with robbing a 60-year-old
Donna resident and slashing his throat with a box cutter in April.
Douglas
March 30
TEXAS:
Murder is out; trial goes onProsecutors can't prove fetus was viable
for capital charge
Prosecutors dropped capital murder charges Wednesday against a man accused
of stabbing his girlfriend 17 times, resulting in the death of her fetus.
Prosecutor Mark Skurka said he
March 22
TEXASexecution
Lubbock man executed for death of toddler
A Lubbock man was executed tonight for the April 1997 beating death of his
girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter.
To everybody on both sides of that wall, I want you to know that I love
you both, Robert Salazar Jr., said in
Feb. 2
TEXAS:
Andrea Yates is Released From jailShe is heading to a state mental
hospital on bond-AMOUNT SET: At $200,000; prosecutors sought $1
million
Andrea Pia Yates was released from jail on a bond this morning and headed
to a state mental hospital where she is to remain until
March 28
TEXAS:
Testimony scheduled to start in Irving man's murder trial
In Denton, a man accused of killing his pregnant wife and mother-in-law 2
years ago goes on trial for his life today.
Christopher Jay Swift of Irving says he was insane when he killed Amy
Sabeh-Swift, 27, and
June 20
TEXAS:
The Daily Texan's opinion piece Death penalty needs reprieve (6/14/05),
finds that Texas should have a reprieve on executions because of Texas'
many commutations, overturns and retrials in death penalty cases.
Let's review The Daily Texans' evidence for a moratorium:
1) a
July 2
TEXAS:
Convict in Prosper killings spared deathDecision cites Supreme Court
ruling against executing retarded
A federal court ruled Friday that the state cannot execute a Collin County
man now on death row, citing a 2002 Supreme Court ruling forbidding
executions of mentally
Jan. 1
TEXAS:
Court shows scorn for civil rights
Texas is 1st in the nation in executions, with 336 since 1976. But to keep
the state's machinery of death humming at top speed, the courts that
oversee the process have been short-changing justice.
The state's Court of Criminal Appeals
March 22
TEXAS:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE---Ex-prosecutors could defend capital cases
Former prosecutors without experience as defense attorneys could find
themselves appointed to help indigent defendants facing the death penalty.
That was the thrust of legislation that received tentative
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