In this edition: Scheduled executions: No executions in Texas this summer Updates on innocence cases: Attorneys for Robert Roberson object to Texas Attorney General’s request for an execution date; U.S. Supreme […]
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Last night, April 23, 2025, the State of Texas executed Moises Sandoval Mendoza after the Supreme Court of the United States denied his application for a stay of execution and a […]
In this edition: Scheduled executions: Urge a 90-day reprieve for David Wood to test the DNA Updates on innocence cases: Robert Roberson asks the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals again to […]
In this edition: Updates on Robert Roberson: Where things stand with Roberson’s case; wish him a happy birthday on November 10 Scheduled executions: No more executions set in Texas in […]
Last week, the United States reached a horrendous milestone: The 1,600th execution in the “modern” era of the death penalty (since 1976). The Death Penalty Information Center notes that this is […]
Last night, September 24, 2024, the State of Texas executed Travis Mullis. In 2011, a jury in Galveston County sentenced Mullis to death for killing his three-month-old son, Alijah. Because Mullis […]
Last night, August 7, 2024, the State of Texas executed Arthur Lee Burton. Burton was convicted of assaulting and killing Nancy Adleman, a mother of three who was jogging near […]
UPDATE: On October 4, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari and agreed to consider Ruben Gutierrez’s claim that he should be allowed to pursue his legal rights to conduct […]