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Life in Texas prison vs. death row. Earlier Tuesday, more than an hour of testimony outside the presence of the jury kicked off the third week of Elders’ trial, with the defense challenging a ...
Texas' highest criminal court on April 25, 2022, delayed the execution of Lucio, the only Latina on the state's death row, who was set to die April 27, 2022. Taylor Rene Parker Parker was convicted for the October 2020 slaying of her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage Hancock.
The seven inmates involved in the escape. Top row, left to right, Joseph Garcia, Randy Halprin, Larry James Harper, and Patrick Murphy Jr. Bottom row, left to right, Donald Newbury, George Rivas, and Michael Anthony Rodriguez. The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000.
Martin Gurule. Martin Edward Gurule (November 7, 1969 - November 27, 1998) was an American prisoner who successfully escaped from death row in Texas in 1998. It was the first successful breakout from Texan death row since Raymond Hamilton was broken out by Bonnie and Clyde on January 16, 1934.
At least eight death row inmates in the state have committed suicide in the last 20 years, according to prison records consulted by The Texas Tribune. The most recent took place on Jan. 21 , when ...
An appeals court on Wednesday denied a new trial request from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, whose supporters say there is evidence to back his claims of innocence. The Texas Court ...
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent less than 1.15 percent of the 1,561 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
Brittany Marlowe Holberg (born January 1, 1973) is a woman on death row in the U.S. state of Texas.On Friday, March 27, 1998, Holberg was convicted of the November 1996 robbery and murder of 80-year-old A. B. Towery Sr. (1916–1996) in his southwest Amarillo home, and was sentenced to death by 251st state District Judge Patrick Pirtle.