Category: Future Dangerousness

State of Texas executes Billy Wardlow

Post author By Kristin
Post date July 8, 2020

Update as of 7:40 PM, July 8, 2020: The State of Texas executed Billy Wardlow tonight, July 8, 2020, despite an outpouring of support from legislators, juvenile justice and neuroscience […]

Tags Billy Wardlow, COVID-19, Death Penalty, execution, future dangerousness, Texas, U.S. Supreme Court

Future Dangerousness racial bias

Race and “future dangerousness” in the Texas death penalty

Post author By Kristin
Post date July 1, 2020

Many of Texas’s most troubling death penalty cases are rooted in a corrosive system of racism fostered by predictions of future dangerousness, a unique facet of our state’s capital punishment statute.

Tags Death Penalty, Duane Buck, Furman v. Georgia, future dangerousness, Gregg v. Georgia, systemic racism, Texas, U.S. Supreme Court