Posted on · Instead, Thomas Bartlett Whitaker will now spend the rest of his life in prison for coordinating a 2003 ambush that left his mother and brother dead, and his father severely wounded
Posted on · For the first time since 2007, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate
Posted on · Whitaker offered to take responsibility for the killings and accept life sentences but his attorneys said prosecutors rejected it because it contained no expression of remorse for the shooting deaths of his mother and his brother