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How Texas determines whether someone has the intellectual capacity to be sentenced to death is being examined by the nation’s highest court on Tuesday.…
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For the first time in 20 years, the number of Texas executions will fall out of double digits this year.The seven men put to death this year are the…
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The Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a Texas case involving a murder defendant sentenced to death after a trial witness said he was more likely to commit crimes because he was black.
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The country writ large has seen a slowdown in executions. In Texas, a leader in executions, Fuller could become the first person put to death in more than five months.
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Duane Buck was given the death penalty after an expert witness testified that he was more likely to be dangerous in the future because he was black. The Supreme Court hears his case Wednesday.
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The majority of sentences were handed down in just 16 counties last year, out of 3,000 counties in the United States.
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From Texas Standard: Much has been said of Texas' top rank when it comes to the administration of the death penalty. Notwithstanding the state's record,...
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An attorney for former Texas death row inmate Alfred Dewayne Brown is asking state Comptroller Glenn Hegar to reconsider denying his client almost $2…
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Last weekend Moreese Bickham was laid to rest. He was 98 and was known as the oldest survivor of Death Row. Bickham was buried in his hometown in…
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John Allen Rubio sits on Death Row in Texas. He was convicted of the 2003 murder of three children that were in his care. Rubio with his common law wife…