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Tag: Texas execution

Robert Fratta

Criminal Justice

Ex-Missouri City officer Robert Fratta to be executed Tuesday in murder-for-hire plot

Associated Press

Posted on January 9, 2023 · Fratta was convicted of killing his wife, Farah. She was found shot twice in the head after she filed for divorce.

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I SEE U

I SEE U, Episode 13: The Radical Forgiveness of Anthony Graves

Eddie Robinson

Posted on August 13, 2021 · Death Row Exoneree Anthony Graves is fighting for a fair criminal justice system, but is Texas willing to take action?

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The interior of the death chamber in Huntsville, Texas.

The Death Penalty In Texas

For The First Time In More Than 40 Years, Media Were Not Allowed To Witness A Texas Execution

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on May 20, 2021 · On Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999.

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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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Top Texas Appeals Court Won’t Stop Next Week’s Execution

Associated Press

Posted on July 11, 2018 · Christopher Young is set to die next week for the November 2004 slaying of Hasmukh "Hash" Patel.

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UPDATE: Texas Executes Lubbock ‘Suitcase Killer’

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on March 27, 2018 · Rosendo Rodriguez was executed Tuesday for killing a Lubbock prostitute and tossing her body in a dumpster in a suitcase

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Dallas Man Set To Die For Killing Daughters, 9 And 6

Michael Graczyk, AP

Posted on January 31, 2018 · A state judge and the state appeals court found Battaglia was competent, not mentally ill and was faking mental illness to try to avoid execution

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Despite budget surplus, Texas Legislature makes little money available for prison air conditioning

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on May 26, 2023 · Stifling heat has killed inmates and exacerbated employee turnover in Texas prisons. But funding for air conditioning was whittled down in the draft budget released Thursday.

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Criminal Justice

Texas executes Robert Fratta after high courts reject challenges to expired lethal injection drugs

Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune

Posted on January 11, 2023 · Fratta was convicted in the 1994 murder-for-hire of his wife. Lawyers unsuccessfully challenged Texas’ routine of extending the expiration dates of its lethal drugs, a practice begun when many pharmacies began refusing to provide doses for executions.

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What Artemis I taught us (Dec. 12, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on December 12, 2022 · On Monday's show: NASA's Artemis I mission returned to Earth on Sunday. We discuss how the mission went and what was learned from it. And we examine how a lack of proper staffing and security contributed to a deadly Texas prison escape.

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Police

Missouri City to offer new police officers $10,000 sign-on bonuses

ShaVonne Herndon

Posted on August 31, 2022 · The Missouri City Police Department is experiencing a shortage because officers are leaving for other police departments that pay more, the police association says.

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