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Texas murderer David Renteria executed, 22 years after abduction, killing of 5-year-old
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHUNTSVILLE, Texas − David Santiago Renteria spoke his last words Thursday night, strapped to a...
8 men in El Paso murder cases on death row; Walmart shooter faces death penalty
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe list of death sentences handed down in El Paso increased by one this week when Facundo Chavez,...
‘How can I give back life?’ Texas death row prisoner asks for execution reprieve to donate kidney
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA man on death row in Texas has requested a stay of execution, so that he may donate a kidney before...
Man on Death Row Gets Last-Minute Stay of Execution After Victim’s Sister Advocates for Him
People via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWilliam Speer, 49, has been on death row in Texas for decades Texas Department of Criminal Justice...
Texas inmate executed for killing wife and her daughter
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter...
Controversial three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional for death row inmates in...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe death chamber and the steel bars of the viewing room are seen at the state penitentiary in...
Richard Linklater on God Save Texas, Ivan Cantu and Hope
Men's Journal via Yahoo News· 3 months agoGod Save Texas is a trilogy of films from three distinct filmmakers designed to chronicle the...
Alabama nitrogen hypocrisy: America's latest fantasy death-penalty solution
Salon via Yahoo News· 9 months agoGas Death House of Nevada Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images The state of Alabama now says it is...
Oklahoma readies for 25 executions in 2 years. But critics ask, 'Why the rush?'
Yahoo News via AOL· 2 years agoOklahoma is set to execute its first of more than two dozen death row inmates over the next 29...
Former Missouri City police officer to be executed
The Huntsville Item, Texas via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 9—Robert Alan Fratta, 65, is set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10. He was convicted in the November 1994 murder-for-hire shooting death of his wife, Farah Fratta, 34. The mother ...