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Joseph Garcia was four years into a 50-year sentence for a 1996 Bexar County murder when he joined six other inmates who escaped prison, went on the run…
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From Texas Standard.Danny Bible is scheduled to die on June 27. He was sentenced to death in 2003 for murdering Houston resident Inez Deaton in 1979.…
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From Texas Standard.Texas has been fighting to keep a secret for years now – the name of the pharmacy that supplies its execution drugs. But late last…
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From Texas Standard.Texas is re-upping a request to “opt in” to a federal law that would speed up the execution appeals process in the state, potentially…
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From Texas Standard:Following the execution of a Dallas man last week, the status of the state's supply of execution drugs is under new scrutiny. In a…
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A Texas death row inmate whose case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court could now face an execution date after the justices ruled against him in…
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From Texas Standard:In 1985, Pedro Solis Sosa was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing a sheriff's deputy in Wilson County. Prosecutors alleged…
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Almost two years after Texas tried to import an execution drug from overseas, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled Thursday that the drug can’t be…
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The high court declined a request by the state to lift a stay that would have allowed the first execution in nearly a dozen years to proceed. Don Davis was set to die Monday night by lethal injection.
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the execution of Paul Storey, which was set for Wednesday.In a three-page order Friday afternoon, the court…