Judge recommends new trial for Texas death row inmate Rigoberto Avila
The state's highest criminal court will now weigh the recommendation. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Texas lethal injection drugs
Texas death row inmates lost at the U.S. Supreme Court when the high court denied their petition to challenge the state's execution protocol. Full Story
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John Battaglia executed for killing his daughters despite late appeals
The Dallas man who killed his two daughters in 2001 was executed Thursday night. It was the third execution in Texas and the nation this year. Full Story
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Texas executes Houston serial killer Anthony Shore
The first execution of 2018 in Texas and the nation took place Thursday evening for Houston’s “Tourniquet Killer.” It was the first execution under Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, a Democrat who oversaw the first year in more than 30 without an execution in the county. Full Story
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Texas leads the nation in executions, but its death row population is dropping
Texas executed more people than any other state this year, but fewer new death sentences has led to a shrinking death row population. Full Story
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halts state's last execution of 2017
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped the state's last remaining execution of 2017, sending the San Antonio case back to court to resolve claims of false testimony at trial. Full Story
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Death row inmate gets new sentencing hearing because lawyer refused to present his case
Hector Medina was sentenced to death in 2008 after killing his two young children. Now, he's getting a new sentencing trial because his lawyer refused to present evidence to persuade jurors to opt for the lesser sentence of life without parole. Full Story
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Texas death row inmate Duane Buck has sentence reduced to life after Supreme Court orders retrial
Duane Buck, whose death sentence in a 1995 double slaying was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court after allegations of racist testimony from an expert witness, had his sentence reduced to life in prison Tuesday. Full Story
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Bexar County delays execution because of Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey has delayed the execution of a San Antonio man. Bexar County officials withdrew the execution date because part of the man's defense team works in the Houston area. Full Story
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Court halts execution of convicted child killer who claims intellectual disability
A man convicted in the sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl was set to die next Wednesday. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped his execution amid claims of intellectual disability. Full Story
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Texas executes man who claimed his lawyers committed fraud
Texas carried out its fifth execution of the year Thursday evening, putting to death TaiChin Preyor in the 2004 murder of a San Antonio woman. Full Story
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