The number of inmates on Texas’ death row is falling. At its peak in 1999, 460 men and women were living with a death sentence in Texas, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. Today, there are 260.
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.
Posted inState Government
San Antonio, UT-Dallas, MD Anderson Added to Salary Explorer
The city of San Antonio, the MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas at Dallas are the latest additions to the Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer.
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice, Demographics
Get a Closer Look at Texas’ Death Row
There are currently 261 inmates living on death row in Texas, the state with the most active execution chamber by far. Use this interactive to search through these men and women by the length of their stay, race, age and sex.
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Demographics
See How Each Texas City Grew From 2010 to 2014
Texas suburbs continue to dominate as the fastest-growing areas of the state, according to new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Posted inState Government
City of Austin Added to Salaries Explorer
The city of Austin is the latest addition to the Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer. Included are salaries for all city employees as well as breakdowns by gender, ethnicity and length of employment. Use our explorer to search this data — and more.
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Demographics
Interactive: Where Undocumented Students Pay In-State Tuition
Just 2 percent of students enrolled in an institution of higher education in Texas are undocumented and pay in-state tuition — and most of them attend community college. Check out these students’ enrollment by campus.
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Politics
Houston, Dallas Would Be Largest Cities to Allow Open Carry
A Tribune analysis of gun laws nationwide shows passing “open carry” legislation would make Texas an outlier among states with large urban populations. Many of the nation’s biggest cities are located in states that prohibit it.
Posted inEnergy, Environment
Blood Lessons: An Investigative Series on Refinery Deaths
Take a look back at Blood Lessons, a Texas Tribune/Houston Chronicle investigation into whether the nation’s oil refineries learned the lessons of the deadly explosion at BP’s Texas City plant in 2005.
Posted inEnergy, Environment
Blood Lessons: Refining Still a Deadly Industry
How many people die at oil refineries each year? Longstanding federal record-keeping practices make it incredibly tough to answer that simple question. Review the deaths at refineries in the 10 years before and after the infamous Texas City explosion.
Posted inEnergy, Environment
Blood Lessons: Survivors Recall a Disastrous Day
Ten years after the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion, hear from two workers who survived it — but lost many of their friends. These videos and vignettes are part of a collaboration between The Texas Tribune and the Houston Chronicle.
