Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death penalty. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Execution Watch: 8/21/2019

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Texas cranks up the death machine again on Wednesday night... LARRY SWEARINGEN, condemned in the December 1988 slaying of a woman last se...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Update: Execution put on hold

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Today a federal district judge granted Dexter Johnson's request for a stay of execution - but not because of claims of brain damage and...
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Execution Watch: 5/2/2019

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On Thursday night Texas will murder again... DEXTER JOHNSON, condemned for the slaying of a couple in 2006 during a carjacking committed i...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Execution Watch: 3/28/2019

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On Thursday night the Texas killing machine fires up again... PATRICK MURPHY, convicted under the Texas law of parties, which allows prose...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Execution Watch: 2/28/2019

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will murder once again... BILLY COBLE, 70. One of the oldest people on death row, he was sentenced to de...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Execution Watch: 1/30/2019

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Tonight the Texas killing machine is back in action... ROBERT JENNINGS. Sentenced to death for the 1988 shooting of a Houston Police vice ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Update: Court stays Milam execution

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On Monday, the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of Blaine Milam. The Court granted the stay due to questions on about the reli...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Execution Watch 1/15/2019

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On Tuesday night, the State of Texas will take another life... BLAINE MILAM. Was he in drug-induced psychosis when a child died during a s...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Court allows execution to proceed after receiving evidence of prosecutorial misconduct

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Last Tuesday night the State of Texas murdered Alvin Braziel - despite the fact prosecutors admitted, hours before the scheduled execution t...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Execution Watch: 12/11/2018

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On Tuesday night, the State of Texas will kill again... ALVIN BRAZIEL, JR., 43. Mr. Braziel's attorneys said he received sub-par legal...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The rigged death penalty jury

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One of the most important questions you can ask a prospective juror is whether or not they can consider the entire range of punishment in a ...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Execution Watch: 12/4/2018

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On Tuesday night, the death machine rolls on... JOSEPH GARCIA . Condemned following his conviction in the December 2000 shooting death of a...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Execution Watch: 11/14/2018

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On Wednesday night, the State of Texas will murder again... ROBERT RAMOS . The Mexican national, who suffers from mental illness, is to be...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Washington Supreme Court strikes down the death penalty

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Allen Eugene Gregory was not a very good person. In 1996 he robbed, raped and murdered a woman. Two years later he was investigated for anot...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Of mice and men and executions and intellectual disabilities

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Last week the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of Juan Segundo pending a determination of whether or not his intellectu...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Killing, just because

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How much fun can it possibly be to exact revenge when the target of your wrath hasn't the slightest clue why? In 1985 Vernon Madison w...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Execution Watch: 9/27/18

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will kill for the second time in two days... DANIEL ACKER . Condemned following his conviction in the sla...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Execution Watch 9/26/18

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will kill again... TROY CLARK . Sentenced to death after being convicted in the 1998 bathtub drowning of...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

A death in Nebraska and a governor out for bloodlust

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Just how badly does Pete Ricketts want to kill people? Enough that the Nebraska governor and his father spent $300,000 of their own money ...