Page Two: Return of the Independents

'SXSW Presents,' season three

"...should be self-explanatory. The Texas hot-button topic of the death penalty is raised in State vs. Reed...."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

"...back something to society," Somers said. "Other than the death of a grandparent, they may not have faced people..."

Sept. 8, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...three-part series this week that it appears another Texas death row inmate, Carlos De Luna, was wrongfully executed for..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...two cases, the Supreme Court ruled that a Florida death-row inmate can pursue his challenge of execution by lethal..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature

Anthony Graves Update

Seeking to overturn a lower court's ruling that death row inmate Anthony Graves must be given a new trial by Sept. 12, AG's office files final appeal to U.S. Supreme Court

"...Court, seeking to overturn a lower court's ruling that death row inmate Anthony Graves must be given a new..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Capital Judicial Pinball

Rodney Reed Case Back in Court

"...At press time, lawyers for convicted death row inmate Rodney Reed were preparing for a hearing..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lege Notes

"...the bill removes the life-with-parole option, meaning that in death penalty cases, Texas' system still only provides two options:..."

June 24, 2005 News Column

Naked City

Court rules Dallas Co. prosecutors engaged in race-based jury selection at Miller-El's trial

"...Supremes on June 13 overturned the conviction of Texas death row inmate Thomas Miller-El, who was sentenced to die..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...alternative. Now, instead of the proposed three options – death, life with parole, and life without parole – capital..."

April 22, 2005 News Column

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...the Texas Capital Punishment Commission to study the state's death system, with particular focus on the representation of indigent..."

April 8, 2005 News Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...one time, in June 1998, when he commuted the death sentence of confessed serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. (Lucas..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...inmates and $100,000 per year for inmates exonerated from death row. – Jordan Smith..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Revenge, Christianity, and the Death Penalty..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column

Naked City

Breaking news stories from Austin and elsewhere.

"...recent series of interventions on the behalf of Texas death row inmates on July 6, when it issued an..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...case questioning the legality of as many as 100 death penalty cases. See Texas Death Cases on Trial..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

"...– that allow youthful offenders to be sentenced to death; there are 82 defendants nationwide awaiting execution for juvenile..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Breaking news briefs from Austin and elsewhere

"...After death row inmate Delma Banks Jr. got a last-minute stay..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines

"...one of the last journalists to interview Banks on death row; look next week for Smith's report...."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines

"...In a rare bit of cheering news on the death-penalty front, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of..."

Feb. 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Pierce Freed After Three Years: "Godspeed"

The DA drops charges against Maurice Pierce for the yogurt shop murders.

"...the witnesses against him, he wouldn't be sitting on death row today." (The DA's office has until April to..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Capitol Chronicle

A farewell to Maury Maverick Jr.

"...Even after his death last week at the age of 82, Maury Maverick..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...nationwide, according to the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. This year alone Texas has executed 32 people,..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

Danziger and Ochoa: Why Did Freedom Take So Long?

"...each threatened Ochoa with stories of prison rape and death by lethal injection in order to secure his confession...."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Life Sentence for Delamora

"...of capital murder in the February 15, 2001 shooting death of Travis Co. Sheriff's Office Deputy Keith Ruiz. Ruiz..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Sun Also Sets

Activist / artist / teacher / political candidate Susan Lee Solar is remembered by friends.

"...project: Quality of Mercy, a book about the Texas death penalty system that Solar had spent the last two..."

March 8, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...basis and who played an integral part in his death. Father Payne, among others, probably recognized this fact and..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...we have decided to do a job about the death penalty. So our teacher showed us a documentary about..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Column

Short Cuts

Red carpet reportage, and other filmic items

"...prof and staunch advocate for the elimination of the death penalty named David Gale who finds himself on death..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Mark Miks and Murder in Small Town X, festival season upon us, and pre-production on The Life of David Gale.

"...Kevin Spacey starring as a fictional UT prof and death penalty abolitionist "who through a series of events winds..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Capitol Chronicle

An Update on Work in Progress at the Lege

"...And see "Naked City" for an update on hate crimes.Death Penalty One of the surprises of the session has..."

April 27, 2001 News Column by Michael King

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