Gideon Rogers for Texas Public Radio
Texas Public Radio spent more than a year analyzing more than 1,200 deaths from abuse and neglect between 2018 and 2023. The project, funded by the Pulitzer Center, brings stories of children who died when the state of Texas failed to intervene. TPR Accountability reporter Paul Flahive uncovered a child welfare system so intent on reducing its contact with troubled families that children have routinely been left with violent, unstable, drug-abusing parents.
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It reported that 41% of all mass shooters had a history of domestic violence. -
Moises Mendoza was convicted of murder in 2005 for killing a Farmersville woman and later burning her body. -
In Texas and many other states, lethal injection is used for executions. The new book Secrets of the Killing State by Corinna Barrett Lain pulls back the curtain of secrecy surrounding lethal injection. The author claims there is gross incompetence by woefully inept executioners and a state indifference to the fate of the condemned. -
State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases – a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 – will ever be regulated in the law. -
An appeals court sided with Attorney General Ken Paxton over whether San Marcos's marijuana decriminalization ordinance is legal. -
Victims and families of the people who died in the 2019 attack offered impact testimonies as trial ends. "I have no more room for hate in my heart," said Yvonne Gonzalez, who lost her parents. -
The Texas Department of Public Safety said it, along with several other government agencies, has been investigating the Tren de Aragua gang for more than a year. -
Defense attorneys said the allegedly withheld evidence could prove that the warrant to arrest the three former SAPD officers was improperly obtained. -
The alleged attack comes amid a series of attacks and threats against Tesla. -
A defense lawyer for Patrick Crusius talks about his mental health history, online radicalization, purchase of a semiautomatic rifle, and his deadly attack on El Paso.
