Year: 2008

Dec. 2 TEXAS: Edinburg Massacre convict loses death row appeal An inmate convicted for providing assault weapons to gang members lost hiscase in state appeals court last week. Rodolfo Alvarez […]

Dec. 2 TEXAS: Robert Sparks may face capital punishment for deaths of wife, stepsons Nicoletta Agnew plans to walk into a Dallas courtroom this morning andface the man she believes […]

Dec. 1 TEXAS: El Pasoan scheduled to be executed next month El Pasoan Ricardo Ortiz, convicted in 1999 of capital murder, is scheduledto be executed Jan. 29, 2009, according to […]

Nov. 29 TEXAS: The Life Penalty—-In the execution capital of the free world, deathsentences have declined precipitouslythanks in part to the institution oflife-without-parole sentences. Juan Leonardo Quintero was on the […]

Nov. 28 TEXAS: Lubbock Death Row Inmate Loses Appeal A Lubbock man lost his death row appeal Wednesday according to the DallasMorning News website. Joe Franco Garza, 37, was convicted […]

Nov. 26 TEXAS: 6 condemned inmates lose appeals A career criminal condemned for killing a Houston police officer 20 yearsago was among a half-dozen Texas death row inmates to lose […]

Nov. 25 TEXAS—-new execution date Johnny Johnson has been given an execution date of February 12; it shouldbe considered serious. (sources: TDCJ & Rick Halperin) *********** Texas DPS criminal database […]

Nov. 24 TEXAS: Survivors relieve fatal Tarrant bombing every Thanksgiving The week of Thanksgiving always brings pain for Susan Blount and LynneWright. But this one with an old capital murder […]