A Texas execution set for next week has been delayed indefinitely because the state wasn’t able to retest the purity of the lethal drugs in time.
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Paxton Drops Challenge as Exxon Mobil Probe Shifts
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his Alabama counterpart have dropped their legal bid to squelch a U.S. Virgin Islands investigation of Exxon Mobil after the U.S. territory agreed to with draw a subpoena for company documents.
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Feds to Fund College Courses for Thousands of Texas Inmates
More than 2,500 Texas inmates will participate in a national experiment starting next month so that the federal government can study whether reinstating Pell Grants for prisoners might boost their chances of finding employment.
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Texas Board of Criminal Justice Selects New Prisons Chief
Second-in-command Bryan Collier will be the next executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the agency’s governing board announced Friday.
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10 Candidates Vying to Be Next Texas Prisons Chief
The next executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will lead nearly 40,000 employees, manage a $3 billion annual budget, direct more than 100 prisons and oversee the nation’s busiest execution chamber.
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Appeals Court Changes Texas Death Row Inmate’s Sentence to Life
A man who sexually assaulted and fatally stabbed a 68-year-old woman during a 1995 burglary in Hidalgo County will no longer face execution after he has been determined to be intellectually disabled.
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Advocates Push For Early Release of Severely Ill Sex Offenders
A prisoner rights advocate thinks lawmakers should loosen restrictions on medical parole eligibility for sex offenders. A top state lawmaker on criminal justice issues agrees with her but says the issue is just too politically toxic.
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A Peek at a Forgotten Age of Prison Radio in Texas
As the Great Depression was winding down, a variety show broadcast from the state prison in Huntsville began airing on the radio and collecting a devoted audience. A new book collects the stories of the men and women who performed on the show and at the annual Texas Prison Rodeo.
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State, Lawyers Debate Identifying Execution Drug Supplier
Revealing Texas’ supplier of execution drugs could have a harmful effect on the provider and as a result leave the state empty-handed, a lawyer for the state suggested Wednesday during an appeals court hearing.
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Search Texas Death Row Inmates by County, Execution Date
Our Faces of Death Row app has some new features. Now, you can search for inmates by the county where the crime was committed and see who has an execution date scheduled.
