Year: 2009

Jan. 22 TEXAS—-execution Man convicted of strangling stepmother executed A convicted rapist and suspected serial killer was executed Thursdayevening for strangling and robbing his stepmother in Fort Worth more than8 […]

Jan. 21 TEXAS: Confessed killer of 5 loses at Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to review the case of aTarrant County man who confessed to fatally […]

Jan. 21 TEXAS—-execution Killer of 2 outside Texas bar executed Condemned prisoner Frank Moore was executed Wednesday night for a doublekilling exactly 15 years ago in San Antonio. "Self-defense is […]

Jan. 21 TEXAS: DNA expert links defendant to McKinney quadruple murder scene A DNA expert linked the defendant in a 2004 quadruple murder to itemsfound at the McKinney crime scene. […]

Jan. 20 TEXAS—-impending execution Texas inmate set to die for killing 2 outside bar Frank Moore readily admits gunning down 2 people outside a San Antonio barbut insists he doesn't […]

Jan. 19 TEXAS: Trial for 2004 McKinney quadruple homicide focuses on man who onceconfessed The capital murder trial of Raul Cortez, one of two defendants chargedwith killing 4 people in […]

Jan. 17 TEXAS: DNA doesn't match, but prosecutors unmoved Lawyers for a Houston man sentenced to death in the 1994 killing of a72-year-old grandmother argued for his release Friday, saying […]

Jan. 14 TEXAS: Nation's 1st execution of 2009 Wednesday in Texas Even a defense lawyer for convicted murderer Curtis Moore acknowledged thehorrific nature of the 3 slayings that convinced a […]