Inmates allege Texas plans to use unsafe execution drugs
theGrio via AOL· 9 months agoHOUSTON (AP) — Texas plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out executions early this year...
Court goes against Texas inmates questioning execution drugs
theGrio via AOL· 9 months agoHOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal appeals court has barred a civil court judge from issuing any...
Double-execution scheduled Thursday for oldest death row inmates in Tennessee and Texas
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNote: Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday issued a temporary reprieve to the execution of Oscar Franklin Smith...
Death penalty decline continues in Texas, but opponents say system still flawed
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Fort Worth convicted killer Quintin Jones went to the death chamber in Huntsville on May 19,...
Texas inmate executed for killing wife and her daughter
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter...
U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Corpus Christi death row inmate's execution request
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Thursday in favor of Corpus Christi death row inmate John Henry...
Executions continued decline but many ‘botched’ in 2022, report says
theGrio via AOL· 9 months agoHOUSTON (AP) — Public support and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued its more than...
Texas House says no to executing killers with 'severe mental illness'
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAUSTIN — The Texas House has preliminarily approved a measure that would make someone who committed...
From lethal injection to hangings— haunting photos show how the death penalty has evolved in America
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA group of newsmen looking at the chair in which Gary Gilmore sat when facing the firing squad on...
Texas death row inmates sue over solitary confinement
theGrio via AOL· 8 months agoHOUSTON (AP) — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas...