future dangerousness

State of Texas executes Billy Wardlow

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 Kristin execution, Future Dangerousness

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 experts, and so many others. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider his appeals, and there was no word from Texas Governor Greg Abbott in […]

TCADP July 2020 Newsletter: “Future dangerousness” and the Texas death penalty

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Kristin executions, U.S. Supreme Court

In this edition Reflections on race and “future dangerousness” in the Texas death penalty Scheduled executions: State of Texas seeks to execute Billy Joe Wardlow for a crime he committed 27 years ago at the age of 18; federal government sets four execution dates Case updates: Bobby Moore, who spent 40 years on death row, […]

Race and “future dangerousness” in the Texas death penalty

July 1, 2020July 8, 2020 Kristin Future Dangerousness, racial bias

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.

Trial court postpones execution date for Billy Joe Wardlow

April 6, 2020 Kristin execution

Today, April 6, 2020, the trial court granted the state’s motion to move Billy Joe Wardlow’s execution date from April 29 to July 8; it denied defense’s motion to withdraw the date. Both motions were based on the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the fourth execution scheduled by the State of Texas to be stayed or […]

State of Texas executes Travis Runnels

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019 Kristin execution

The State of Texas carried out the final execution of the year last night, putting Travis Runnels to death after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider his final appeal regarding false testimony by one of the state’s witnesses at his trial. It was the ninth execution in Texas in 2019.

State of Texas executes Billie Wayne Coble

February 28, 2019March 1, 2019 Kristin execution

Last night, February 28, 2019, the State of Texas executed Billie Wayne Coble. At 70 years of age, he was the oldest person put to death here since Texas resumed executions in 1982. He spent nearly 30 years on death row.