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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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FDA officially bans Texas’ attempted import of execution drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final ruling Thursday evening banning Texas’ attempted import of an execution drug from overseas.
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Texas man convicted in double slaying to get Supreme Court hearing
The U.S. Supreme Court, including its newest justice, Neil Gorsuch, will decide on a legal technicality in the case of a Fort Worth man who killed a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother.
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Five death penalty reform bills heard in Texas House committee
Five death penalty bills were heard in a seven-hour-long meeting at the Capitol Monday night.
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Texas court halts execution of man amid claims of false evidence
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of Paul Storey Friday afternoon, which was set for next Wednesday.
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Ruling could mean new execution date for man convicted in prison guard’s murder
A death row inmate convicted in a Texas prison guard’s murder lost another appeal Wednesday at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
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Supreme Court to hear another Texas death penalty case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Texas death penalty case of a Honduran national who was convicted for his role in a 1995 murder of 67-year-old Santiaga Paneque during a Houston home invasion.
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Supreme Court says Texas can’t use old medical standards for death row inmates
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas death row inmate Tuesday, sending his case back to the appeals court and invalidating the state’s method of determining if a death-sentenced inmate is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution.
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Texas death penalty juror hopes to change law as execution looms
As Paul Storey’s execution looms, one juror is asking the Texas Legislature to clarify the jury instructions in death penalty cases, claiming he didn’t know he alone could have stopped the sentence.
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Texas executes Fort Worth man who killed a father and an infant
The state carried out its fourth execution of the year, putting to death 61-year-old James Bigby. He was convicted in the 1987 murders of his friend and a 4-month-old during a killing spree in Fort Worth.
