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Missouri death row inmate faces execution today despite pleas from prison guards
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMissouri governor Michael Parson on Monday denied a last-ditch clemency request from Brian Dorsey,...
Texas Led U.S. In Executions In 2023 Despite Decline In Death Penalty Use, Report Reveals
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA report highlights the continuous failures of the state's capital punishment system, which executed...
Texas Executes Man After 2 Decades Of Innocence Claims On Death Row
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA 50-year-old man on Texas’ death row who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades was...
Texas man on death row says execution this month would be 'for a crime I didn't commit'
NBC News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIvan Cantu, who's on death row and scheduled to be executed on Feb. 28, said new evidence presented...
Texas still leads nation in executions, but the pace is much slower now
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAUSTIN – After a generation of running the busiest execution chamber in the Free World, Texas is...
Texas death row inmate who cut out his eyes seeks clemency
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHOUSTON (AP) — Plagued by mental illness, Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas started hearing voices...
Texas criminal appeals court takes man off death row over intellectual disability
Texas Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSince Randall Mays was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of two sheriff’s deputies, his...
Texas death row inmates sue over solitary confinement
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoHOUSTON (AP) — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas...
The Texas courts have spared Melissa Lucio’s life. Now she can prove her innocence.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTexas planned to execute Melissa Lucio on Wednesday. Republican and Democratic state legislators had...
After Brother's Murder, Sister Pleads to Stay Killer's Execution: He 'Has Something Left to Offer...
People via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLater today, William Keith Speer will become the seventh inmate executed in Texas this year — unless...