Police Arrest Woman on FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives List Over Killing of Dallas Dentist
The FBI set up its Most Wanted Fugitives List back in 1950 but few women have appeared on it. When Brenda Delgado,... Read More
Texas Executes Fifth Inmate of the Year
Arguments that a convicted killer who shot a city code officer dead in 2005, suffered from severe mental illness, failed to stop... Read More
Violent Crime Levels Rose in 2015 in Many North Texas Cities
We often associate rising crime levels with big cities such as Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, but newly released statistics for 2015... Read More
The Use of Bite Mark Evidence is Questioned in Texas
Bite marks have been used for decades by forensic scientists in criminal cases to help establish the identity of offenders. But the... Read More
Texas Executes Raphael Holiday – the 13th Inmate of 2015
The number of executions carried out in Texas has been declining at the same time as the rest of the nation. However,... Read More
Incarcerating Low Risk Juveniles Makes no Sense, Says National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Jailing young people who pose a low risk to society is counterproductive and increases their risks of offending in the future, according... Read More
Oklahoma Postpones Three Executions over Lethal Drug Mix Up
The unexpected postponement of the execution of a death row inmate in Oklahoma after the wrong drugs were delivered to the prison... Read More
Presidents are Granting Fewer and Fewer Clemency Claims
Executive clemency is the process in which an offender is granted a pardon by the President. Typically hundreds of cases were put... Read More
Dallas Police Start to Tackle Backlog of More than 4,000 Rape Kits
Dallas sexual offense attorney news update: More than two years after Texas started to require all law enforcement agencies to tally up... Read More
Five of the Most High Profile Jail Breaks in US History
Recent headlines have been dominated by the escape of convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat from an upstate New York prison.... Read More