Author: tcadp

May 26 TEXAS: Attorneys overworked in capital cases—-About 1/3 are over recommendedlimit on felonies Too Many Cases? A Chronicle analysis of Harris County 16,000 felony case assignments from2004-2009 showed: More […]

May 24 TEXAS: Texas increasingly out of step on death penalty Barring unexpected events, in the next few weeks Gov. Rick Perry of Texaswill oversee his 200th execution since taking […]

May 22 TEXAS: CRIMINAL JUSTICE—-Veto threat dooms change in death penalty law; Measurebanning execution of people who haven't killed won't advance. Death penalty opponents have long decried a Texas law […]

Texas Inmate Goes On Lone Hunger Strike In Protest Of Living Conditions Texas death row inmate Taichin Preyor has decided to go on a lonehunger strike as of May 12, […]

May 21 TEXAS: Veto threat alters death-penalty bill Facing a veto threat from Gov. Rick Perry, members of the Senate CriminalJustice Committee voted this evening to drop a controversial provisionfrom […]

May 19 TEXAS—-execution East Texas man executed Tuesday An East Texas man apologized repeatedly Tuesday as he was executed forfatally stabbing a convenience store clerk during a robbery more than […]

May 19 TEXAS: Man condemned for killing fellow inmate in Beaumont Jurors sentenced a Washington, D.C., man to death Monday for the murder ofa fellow inmate at the federal prison […]

May 18 TEXAS—-new federal death sentence Federal inmate gets death penalty for prison murder U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 30-year-old federalinmate has been sentenced to die […]