The death row inmate argued that officials likely wouldn’t be able to find a vein, and he proposed that the state instead use a firing squad or nitrogen gas. His execution proceeded with no indication of trouble injecting the drugs.
Jolie McCullough
Jolie McCullough was a reporter at The Texas Tribune from 2015 to 2023. She began as a data visualization journalist and then reported on criminal justice policy, ranging from policing and courts to prisons and the death penalty. She joined the Tribune from the Albuquerque Journal, her hometown newspaper. She previously worked at the Arizona Republic and is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Cultural split is evident at Texas committee hearing on gun proposals
Gun rights advocates and student protesters at the Capitol on Monday argued over possible legislation to remove guns from people deemed dangerous and to mandate safe storage of firearms. The hearing was held after Gov. Greg Abbott requested legislators look at gun and school safety after the fatal Santa Fe school shooting.
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Families Divided
“Not knowing anything about my daughter is torture.” Immigrant parents describe being without their children.
Three Central American immigrant detainees have sued the government to be reunited with their children. On Friday, they sent handwritten notes to the court pleading for information about them.
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Families Divided
Trump wants to prosecute all illegal border crossings without splitting up families. That will be a challenge.
A lack of space and a legal settlement stand in his administration’s way.
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Families Divided
Three Central Americans separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border are suing the federal government
The lawsuit argues that the constitutional rights of the families were violated by the Trump administration’s policy and asks that the parents be reunited with their children, one as young as 2 years old.
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Criminal Justice
Will Texas pass a “red flag” law to remove guns from people who are deemed dangerous?
As part of his school and gun safety plan, Gov. Greg Abbott wants to explore a law that would allow local officials to take guns away from people if a judge declares them a danger — while also protecting Second Amendment rights. It’s an issue that has previously gone nowhere in the Texas Legislature.
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Families Divided
‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border
Federal courtrooms across the Southwest are being flooded with distraught mothers and fathers charged with misdemeanor illegal entry and separated from their children.
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Criminal Justice
Texas court upholds Bobby Moore’s death sentence, rejecting broadly supported claim of intellectual disability
After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Texas’ method for determining intellectual disability in Moore’s death penalty case last year, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided on Wednesday to change its standards but said Moore still didn’t qualify.
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stops scheduled execution over claims of intellectual disability
Clifton Williams was set to be executed June 21 for the East Texas home robbery and murder of a 93-year-old woman.
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Criminal Justice
Following sexual abuse scandals, Texas Juvenile Justice Department submits plan to revamp agency
The proposal includes reducing the number of youth at state lockups and focusing on county-run facilities.
