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Man set to die for 1995 slaying wins reprieve (reporternews.com)
A Houston man who participated in a notorious death row escape attempt a decade ago won a reprieve to keep him from the Texas death chamber Tuesday for the fatal shooting of a woman during an... More
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Plano: Attorney fights to dismiss death penalty (www.courier-gazette.com)
An attorney filed a motion to dismiss the death penalty on the ground that its capital sentencing procedure is unconstitutional.
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Criticizes Predictions of Future Dangerousness (standdown.typepad.com)
Judge Paul Womack, joined by Judge Cheryl Johnson, dissented from the majority on Espada's claim regarding a psychiatrist predicting future danger, one of the questions jurors must answer in deciding... More
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Condemned Texas killers lose appeals (www.kvii.com)
The state's top criminal appeals court upheld the death penalties of two convicted killers today.
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Exonerated inmates ask Texas to halt executions (www.statesman.com)
20 men ask state to formally study wrongful convictions
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Did Texas just execute an innocent man? (phillyfreedom.blogspot.com)
Yesterday, the State of Texas executed Wright for a 1997 murder. All along, Wright had maintained his innocence.
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Exonerees to Call for Moratorium on Texas Executions (www.innocenceproject.org)
A group of exonerees will come together in the Texas State Capitol building this afternoon to call for a statewide moratorium on executions
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Death Penalty Politics (standdown.typepad.com)
Capital punishment is legal in some form in 37 states, but it is embraced nowhere as enthusiastically as in Texas. Despite making up around 8% of the population, Texas has been the home of a third of... More
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Homeless man set to die for killing helpful woman (www.chron.com)
Condemned prisoner Gregory Wright looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to block a scheduled Thursday evening trip to the Texas death chamber where he faced lethal injection for the fatal stabbing and... More
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SANDERS: Shameful record of executions (www.star-telegram.com)
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