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Execution Policy Change, And Closing The Border: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of The News

Abner Fletcher

Posted on April 5, 2019 · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.

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Texas Executes Joseph Garcia, One Of The “Texas Seven” Prison Escapees

Hannah Wiley, Texas Tribune

Posted on December 5, 2018 · Garcia was executed Tuesday night. He was the fourth of the "Texas Seven" inmates executed after the group escaped the Connally Unit in 2000 and killed Irving Police Officer Aubrey Hawkins during a Christmas Eve robbery.

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Texas Executes Chris Young, Who Fought The State Parole Board In A Final Appeal

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on July 18, 2018 · The death row inmate claimed that the parole board likely rejected his clemency petition because he was black. The argument highlighted a long-standing criticism of clemency in Texas.

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Before His Scheduled Execution, Chris Young Fights The Texas Parole Board

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on July 17, 2018 · The death row inmate claims that the parole board likely rejected his clemency petition because he is black. The argument highlights a long-standing criticism of clemency in Texas.

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Danny Bible Executed For A 1979 Rape And Murder, Despite Claims That He Was Too Sick For Lethal Injection

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on June 28, 2018 · The death row inmate argued that officials likely wouldn't be able to find a vein, and he proposed that the state instead use a firing squad or nitrogen gas. His execution proceeded with no indication of trouble injecting the drugs.

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Danny Bible Faces Execution In A 1979 Rape And Murder; He Says He’s Too Sick For Lethal Injection

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on June 27, 2018 · The death row inmate is arguing in court that officials likely won't be able to find a vein, and he proposed that the state instead use a firing squad or nitrogen gas

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UPDATE: Texas Executes Juan Edward Castillo

Associated Press

Posted on May 16, 2018 · The execution is the 11th this year in the U.S., and the sixth in Texas

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Exonerated Man On Texas Request For Faster Death Penalty Appeals: “I Would Have Been Executed”

Jollie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on April 9, 2018 · Defense lawyers, legal groups and former federal judges also point to cases of people taken off death row as they oppose the state's push for faster federal death penalty appeals.

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Texas Trying To Expedite the Execution Process

HPM News Staff

Posted on April 4, 2018 · Texas would be the first state to receive opt-in approval in more than two decades

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Man Who Stuffed Lubbock Woman’s Body Into Luggage Set To Die

Associated Press

Posted on March 27, 2018 · Rosendo Rodriguez III to be the fourth inmate executed this year in Texas

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Man On Death Row For Killing 2 Women In Houston Loses Appeal

Associated Press

Posted on March 12, 2018 · Death row inmate loses appeal, moving closer to execution

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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Texas Lethal Injection Drugs

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on February 26, 2018 · Texas death row inmates lost at the U.S. Supreme Court when the high court denied their petition to challenge the state's execution protocol

Tags death row death row inmates execution pentobarbital texas Texas Death Row Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas lethal injection U.S. Supreme Court

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Texas Dragging Death Killer Loses Federal Court Appeal

Associated Press

Posted on February 26, 2018 · A Texas inmate is one step closer to an execution

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Texas Parole Board Recommends Killer Be Spared From Death

Associated Press

Posted on February 21, 2018 · The parole board's presiding officer, said the panel recommended the governor commute the sentence to a lesser penalty

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UPDATE: Dallas Man Executed For Killing Daughters While Mom Listened

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune / Michael Graczyk, AP

Posted on February 1, 2018 · His was the nation's third execution this year, all in Texas

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