Oct. 10
TEXAS:
With a wide variety of headlines dominating both global and domestic news, it
is easy to overlook that today is World Day to Abolish the Death Penalty.
It is clear that since the early 1980s, the majority of the world's nations
have become better educated about the
Feb. 3
TEXASimpending execution
He's Fighting to Save His Family's Killer. The Killer: His Own Son
Bart Whitaker set to be executed Feb. 22 for killing his mom and brother, but
dad isn't giving up on him
"My wife and son were murdered by a masked gunman, and my other son and I
Oct. 5
TEXAS:
Irving killer who shot his baby girl, 3-year-old son wins death row reprieve
An Irving father sentenced to death for the revenge killing of his children
after their mother left him has been granted a new punishment trial.
Hector Rolando Medina, 38, shot 3-year-old
April 19
TEXAS:
Condemned inmate avoids execution with life sentence for Houston crime spree
A North Carolina man who spent years on Texas' death row awaiting execution was
sentenced Monday to 4 consecutive life sentences, a plea bargain that Harris
County prosecutors hope will keep
Oct. 13
TEXAS:
Texas death row inmate Danny Bible loses at US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused an appeal from Texas death row inmate
Danny Paul Bible, who was convicted of the 1979 icepick slaying of a woman who
went to his house in Houston to use a telephone
May 12
TEXAS:
State, Lawyers Debate Identifying Execution Drug Supplier
Revealing Texas' supplier of execution drugs could have a harmful effect on the
provider and as a result leave the state empty-handed, a lawyer for the state
suggested Wednesday during an appeals court hearing.
