Texas’ Highest Court Stays the Execution of Death Row Inmate Rodney Reed
The case of Rodney Reed, a Texas man facing execution, has made headlines across the nation in recent weeks as millions of...Read More
Did Antisemitism Influence Death Row Sentence for Man Accused of Killing a Police Officer?
Randy Halprin has been on Texas’ Death Row for a decade for a high-profile prison escape that resulted in the killing of...Read More
Texas Legislators to Consider Executions for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Texas has been censured by the U.S. Supreme Court over how it determines intellectual disability when deciding if defendants should receive the...Read More
Executions Rise in Texas as the Death Row Population Falls
Texas once again executed more people than any other state in 2018 when the number of prisoners put to death rose. However,...Read More
Execution of Texas Man is Delayed over Schizophrenia Claims
The execution of a man accused of killing a store worker during a robbery at a Fort Worth gas station in 2010...Read More
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker It’s extremely rare for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles...Read More
Texas Executions were Again at a Historic Low in 2017
Texas executed more people than any other state in 2017, but the number of times inmates were put to death was again...Read More
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Halts Six Executions
Texas’ highest criminal court has not often been receptive to the arguments of criminal defense attorneys that their clients should be spared...Read More
Child Killer John Battaglia Fights Execution on Grounds of Mental Incompetency
A former accountant from Dallas who murdered his two daughters in 2001, has been moved from death row as a fight goes...Read More
Duane Buck Case Raises Allegations of Racism in the Texas Judicial System
Allegations of racism in the criminal justice system are nothing new but a high profile case in Texas has led to soul...Read More