With everyone crowing about the rush of early voters in Texas this election, it’s worth noting that we’re still a state with low overall voter turnout. We run the numbers.
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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Politics
Lone competitive U.S. House seat in Texas sparks pricey ad war
National groups are saturating the airwaves in the only competitive U.S. House race in Texas.
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Texas had lowest primary turnout among all but seven states
Texas ranked eighth-to-last in voter turnout for the presidential primaries.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Will See Lowest Number of Executions in 20 Years
At most, Texas will have executed eight men by the close of 2016, the lowest number since 1996.
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Criminal Justice
Execution of Man Who Killed Neighbors is State’s First in Months
Barney Fuller’s execution Wednesday for the 2003 shooting deaths in rural East Texas ended Texas’ longest gap between executions since 2008.
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Criminal Justice
U.S. Supreme Court Seems Receptive to Death Case Appeal
A psychologist testified at Duane Buck’s trial that blacks are more dangerous than whites. Buck wants a new sentencing trial.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Death Row Appeal Hinges on Racial Testimony
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will hear an appeal from death row inmate Duane Buck, whose trial included racially discriminatory testimony.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Sees an Unusual Lull in Executions
It’s been more than five months since the last execution in Texas, an unusual gap for the nation’s most prolific death penalty state.
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Even When Off Duty, Police Officers Have Wide Discretion to Shoot
In at least 66 cases — about 10 percent of police shootings in Texas’ largest cities between 2010 and 2015 — the officer pulling the trigger was off duty, according to an analysis of police data obtained by The Texas Tribune.
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Discipline, Charges Rare in Texas Police Shootings
At least 881 officers were involved in police shootings in Texas’ 36 largest cities between 2010 and 2015, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune. Seven officers have faced criminal charges for pulling the trigger in that period. None have been convicted, so far.
