A new editorial from the Dallas Morning News addresses declining use of the death penalty in Texas and features excerpts from an interview with former District Attorney Tim Cole, who advocates for abolition of the death penalty.
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Texas Executions Drop to Lowest Number Since 1996, According to New Report by TCADP
The State of Texas put 10 people to death in 2014, the fewest executions in the state since 1996, according to the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s (TCADP) new report, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2014: The Year in Review. This year, new death sentences in Texas also remained near record-low levels, with 11 new death sentences coming from just 8 of the state’s 254 counties.
TCADP March 2014 Alert: Spring into Action
In This Edition: Find information on Scheduled Executions, Death Penalty Developments, Featured Events, TCADP 2014 Conference Pictures and Video, What is In the News, Shopping with Amazon, and upcoming Calendar and Volunteer Opportunities.
New Dallas County Death Sentence – Third for Dallas
A Dallas County jury has convicted and sentenced Franklin Davis for the murder of 16 year old, Shania Gray. Gray was the babysitter of Davis’ children and had accused him of rape. Read more about the case from the Dallas Morning News. This is the third death sentence in Dallas County this year, but the […]
New Death Sentence Imposed in Harris County
On Friday, July 19, 2013, the jury in the capital murder trial of Obel Cruz-Garcia determined that he should be put to death for kidnapping and killing six-year old Angelo Garcia, Jr., in 1992. Read more about the case in the Houston Chronicle. This is the first new death sentence out of Harris County since 2011. […]
State of Texas Executes Carroll Parr; Galveston County Jury Imposes First New Death Sentence in 2013
On May 7, 2013, the State of Texas put Carroll Parr to death for the 2003 drug-related robbery and killing of Joel Dominguez in Waco. It was the fifth execution to take place in Texas this year. Earlier in the day, a Galveston County jury sentenced Bartholomew Granger to death for the murder of 79-year-old Minnie Ray Sebolt outside the Jefferson County Courthouse in 2012.
Year-end report from DPIC shows “capital punishment is becoming marginalized and meaningless in most of the country”
Today, December 18, 2012, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) released its year-end report, The Death Penalty in 2012. According to the report, the number of new death sentences in 2012 was the second lowest since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Several states, including North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, did not impose […]
TCADP Report: Use of Death Penalty Geographically Isolated, Arbitrarily Imposed in Texas
According to TCADP’s new report, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2012: The Year in Review, more than half of all new death sentences were imposed in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex this year, while no new death sentences were imposed in Harris County for the third time in five years.
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