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Execution Policy Change, And Closing The Border: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of The News
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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”
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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
Posted on · 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
Posted on · Death row inmate loses appeal, moving closer to execution
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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Texas Lethal Injection Drugs
Posted on · 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
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Texas Dragging Death Killer Loses Federal Court Appeal
Posted on · A Texas inmate is one step closer to an execution
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Texas Parole Board Recommends Killer Be Spared From Death
Posted on · 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
Posted on · His was the nation's third execution this year, all in Texas