The state’s highest criminal court will now weigh the recommendation.
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Texas puts Daniel Acker to death, the second execution in two days
Acker was convicted in the 2000 murder of his girlfriend in East Texas. Her body was found on the side of the road after neighbors said they saw him abduct her.
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Texas executes Troy Clark, the first of two scheduled executions in two days
Clark was convicted in the Tyler murder of Christina Muse, whose body was found stuffed in a cement-filled barrel months after her death. Death penalty opponents say his conviction rested too heavily on a co-defendant’s testimony.
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Will a Texas law that overturns convictions based on bad science save this death row inmate?
The 2013 law was credited with stopping Robert Roberson’s execution two years ago, and his conviction is now under review in county court.
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Families of Chris Young and the man he killed call for a halt to his execution
At a small rally in San Antonio’s main plaza, faith leaders joined Chris Young’s aunt and the son of the man he killed to call for a stop to Young’s execution next week.
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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 must reveal where it got execution drugs, the Texas Supreme Court affirms
The move from the Texas Supreme Court comes more than a year after an Austin-based appeals court said the agency must reveal a 2014 supplier of lethal injection drugs.
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Judge says Texas death row inmate’s sentence should be reduced due to false evidence at trial
Paul Storey’s case had been granted another review less than one week before he was scheduled to be executed.
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Exonerated man on Texas request for faster death penalty appeals: “I would have been executed”
Defense lawyers, legal groups and former federal judges also point to cases of people taken off death row as they oppose the state’s push for faster federal death penalty appeals.
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Texas executes Lubbock “suitcase killer”
Rosendo Rodriguez was executed Tuesday for killing a Lubbock prostitute and tossing her body in a dumpster in a suitcase. His final appeals questioned the medical examiner’s testimony that she was sexually assaulted before her death.
