Category: executions

State of Texas Executes Ronnie Threadgill

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 17, 2013

Last night, April 16, 2013, the State of Texas executed Ronnie Threadgill for the 2001 murder of 17-year-old Dexter McDonald during a carjacking outside a Navarro County nightclub. It was the […]

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Amnesty International Releases Worldwide Death Penalty Stats for 2012

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 11, 2013

Amnesty International has released its annual report on death sentences and executions for 2012. Worldwide, 682 people were executed this past year, compared to 680 in 2011. Sentencing fell from […]

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April 2013 Alert: 5 Scheduled Executions, Legislative Session Mid-Point, Conference Videos and New Voices on the Death Penalty

Post author By tcadp
Post date April 1, 2013

TCADP’s April 2013 Alert includes an update on the Texas legislative session, scheduled executions, and the case of Duane Buck; it also features new voices on the death penalty, including a former District Attorney of Montague County and Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty.

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State of Texas Scheduled to Execute Five People in April

Post author By Kristin
Post date April 1, 2013

Five executions currently are scheduled to take place in Texas this month; the April 3 execution date of Kimberly McCarthy has now been moved to June 26, 2013 upon an order from State District […]

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Texas Carries Out Its First Execution of the Year; Maryland Committee Passes Repeal

Post author By Kristin
Post date February 22, 2013

Last night, February 21, 2013, the State of Texas executed Carl Blue for the 1994 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Carmen Richards-Sanders, in Bryan. It was the first execution to take place […]

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Year-end report from DPIC shows “capital punishment is becoming marginalized and meaningless in most of the country”

Post author By Kristin
Post date December 18, 2012

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 […]

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TCADP Report: Use of Death Penalty Geographically Isolated, Arbitrarily Imposed in Texas

Post author By Kristin
Post date December 12, 2012

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.