Last night, March 28, 2012, the State of Texas executed Jesse Hernandez for the murder of 10-month-old Karlos Borjas in 2001. Hernandez and his wife were babysitting Karlos and his four-year-old sister for a woman who was living with them at the time. According to reports, no relatives of the victim attended the execution. This [...]
On March 23, 2012, jurors in Johnson County sentenced Mark Anthony Soliz to death for the murder of 61-year-old Nancy Weatherly during a crime spree in 2010 that stretched across Johnson and Tarrant Counties. Soliz also faces capital murder charges in Tarrant County for the murder of deliveryman Ruben Martinez, who was shot on the [...]
On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, the State of Texas executed Keith Thurmond. He was convicted of killing his estranged wife, Sharon Thurmond, and her boyfriend, Guy Fernandes, near Magnolia in Montgomery County in 2001. According to the Houston Chronicle, “ Thurmond’s attorneys argued that lawyers representing him in earlier appeals were ‘grossly deficient’ and that his [...]
Last night, February 29, 2012, the State of Texas executed George Rivas. It was the second execution of the year in Texas and the sixth nationwide. Rivas was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins on Christmas Eve in 2000. The shooting occurred while Rivas and six other [...]
Anthony Bartee has received a reprieve so that DNA testing can be conducted on two strands of hair found in the hands of the victim, David Cook. According to the Associated Press and reported in the Houston Chronicle, State District Judge Mary Roman withdrew the execution warrant yesterday. Bartee had been scheduled for execution on February [...]
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