Year: 2008

Nov. 1 TEXAS: Death row inmate tied to 2 more homicides A man scheduled to be executed in January for the 2000 robbery andstrangulation of his stepmother has been tied […]

Oct. 31 TEXAS: Death penalty opponents say system is broken, executions must end As execution numbers rise in Texas, so does the determination to end allexecutions. Families of death row […]

Oct. 30 TEXAS—-execution Homeless man executed for killing helpful woman Proclaiming his innocence, condemned prisoner Gregory Wright was executedThursday evening for the fatal stabbing and robbery of a Dallas-area womanwho […]

Oct. 30 TEXAS—-new death sentence Irving father gets death for killing his 2 children Execution has been ordered for an Irving man convicted in the 2007shooting deaths of his two […]

Oct. 29 TEXAS—-impending execution Homeless man set to die for killing helpful woman Donna Duncan Vick's kindness to the homeless took her life. Now 1 of 2 homeless men condemned […]

Oct. 29 TEXAS: Shameful record of executions Imagine being sentenced to 50 years in the state penitentiary. Thenconsider how you might feel what kind of person you might have become […]

Oct. 28 TEXAS—-execution Killer of 7-year-old girl executed Tuesday A former plumbing supply salesman convicted of snatching a 7-year-old girlfrom his neighborhood then strangling and raping her and hiding her […]

Oct. 27 TEXAS: Criminal appeals court race focuses on change—-3 Republican judges,challengers acknowledge problems in the judicial system Problems in the criminal justice system, highlighted by a series ofexonerations, are […]