Texas death row - The Texas Tribune
Dec 23, 2024 · The latest Texas death row news from The Texas Tribune. By Ayden Runnels Jan. 22, 2025 Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and ...
Texas executes Arthur Lee Burton for 1997 murder - The Texas …
Aug 7, 2024 · Texas executed Arthur Lee Burton on Wednesday evening after his lawyers could not successfully convince the U.S. Supreme Court that he was intellectually disabled, a last-ditch appeal that would ...
Ken Paxton, Texas House members spar over Roberson case - The …
Oct 24, 2024 · A week after death row inmate Robert Roberson was set to die, the extraordinary quest to save his life has morphed into a deepening political battle between a group of Texas House lawmakers and ...
Supreme Court to review death penalty appeal challenging Texas’s …
Jul 16, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a Texas death penalty appeal by Ruben Gutierrez that challenged the constitutionality of a state law limiting DNA testing after conviction.
Robert Roberson judge agrees to recusal | The Texas Tribune
Nov 30, 2024 · Roberson was convicted and sentenced to death in 2003 for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis. Evans, who initially set an execution date of Oct. 17, 2024, has since agreed to ...
Robert Roberson murder case: What to know about the evidence
Oct 29, 2024 · Texas death row prisoners are housed in Livingston but executed at the state prison in Huntsville, about 43 miles away. Credit: Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Innocence Project Audio recording is ...
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate’s petition
Jul 2, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to give Rodney Reed the chance to have his murder case reviewed, delivering a blow to the death row inmate who has for more than a quarter century ...
Seven Texans facing federal execution given ... - The Texas Tribune
Dec 23, 2024 · Biden’s act affects 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, the Associated Press reported. At least five of the Texans scheduled for federal execution stabbed and killed fellow inmates.
Texas’ highest criminal court orders new trial for death row inmate ...
Nov 6, 2024 · SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping ...
Lawsuit: Texas death row conditions are “cruel, inhumane and …
Jan 26, 2023 · Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two decades. Texas’ male death ...