On Friday, June 25, 2010, a Brazoria County jury rejected the death penalty for Nicholas-Michael Edwin Jean and instead sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. […]
Category: death sentences
On June 16, 2010, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the death sentence of Adrian Estrada, who was convicted of the 2005 murder of Stephanie Sanchez in Bexar County. […]
Texas juries handed out two new death sentences this week: On Thursday, May 27, 2010, Blaine Keith Milam was sentenced to death in Montgomery County for the murder of 13-month-old […]
Harris County juries sentenced Mabry Landor III to death row this week in the fatal shooting of Houston Police officer Timothy Abernethy. Jurors deemed Landor as posing a future threat […]
On March 30, 2010 Amnesty International published their annual report “Death Sentence and Executions 2009”. The report covers worldwide development of the death penalty including countries that carried out executions, […]
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, Milton Dwayne Gobert was sentenced to death in the 2003 killing of Mel Kernena Cotton in North Austin. Gobert is the first new death sentence […]
Houston Chronicle contributor Lisa Falkenberg reported on the upcoming speaking engagement of Sister Helen Prejean at the University of Houston-Downtown on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The event is being co-sponsored […]
On Wednesday, February 9, 2010 the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied additional DNA testing and upheld convictions for three death row inmates. The Dallas Morning News (2-10- 2010) reported […]