In the last six days, two men from Harris County have been released from prison due to DNA evidence of their wrongful conviction. Â Â A state district judge has ordered […]
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The Hillsboro Reporter, in Hill County, Texas, features an important article about the cost of capital murder trials and the impact these cases might have on the county budget. The […]
Derrick Jackson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, July 20 at 6:00pm. The execution will be the 15th Texas execution of 31 nationwide.
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July 2 marked the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia (1976), which upheld the newly crafted death penalty statutes of several states (including that of Texas) […]
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. […]
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New TX Death Sentence
On Friday, June 18, 2010, a Dallas County jury sentenced Donald Andrew Bess to death for the rape and murder of SMU student Angela Samota in 1984. The case had […]
Earlier this week, State District Judge Paul Murphy granted a motion from The Innocence Project and the Texas Observer and ordered local prosecutors to turn over a one-inch strand of […]
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Powell Executed
David Lee Powell was executed by the State of Texas on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. He had spent 32 years on death row for the 1978 murder of Austin police […]