New Evidence Suggests Ivan Cantu’s Innocence, But Will Anyone Stop His Execution?

85,000 petitioners and celebrities are behind him

"...Helen Prejean is trying to keep Texas from killing death row inmate Ivan Cantu. Prejean, the famed death penalty..."

Feb. 23, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

HBO Docuseries God Save Texas Offers a Personal Lens on the Lone Star State in Crisis

Texas filmmakers confront hard truths about home

"...surrounding Huntsville, and examines the moral decay around the death penalty and the way Huntsville has changed since he..."

Jan. 28, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

Death Watch: As Execution Falls Out of Favor Nationwide, Texas Accelerates

State continues to execute priests and the intellectually disabled

"...reports that a majority of Americans now believe the death penalty is unfair. The finding is part of the..."

Dec. 8, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Planning to Execute Men in Its Faith-Based Program

Saving souls, destroying bodies

"...Since late 2021, Texas has been working to rehabilitate death row inmates through a new project known as the..."

Nov. 8, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Death Row Inmate Preaches to Prisoners Daily. Now the State Plans to Kill Him.

Saving body and soul

"...smiling, too. They are doing something Speer, as a death row prisoner, has not been allowed to do in..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Insane Inmate Deemed Too Ill to Murder

It took 20 years of litigation to figure out

"...A very rare thing occurred in death penalty jurisprudence on Thursday: Scott Panetti, one of the..."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Texas to End Execution Hiatus on World Day Against the Death Penalty

After execution-free summer, death scheduled Oct. 10

"...one of the quietest in the history of Texas' death row. No prisoners have been executed since March. But..."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...The El Paso Times reported on Monday that the death penalty case against Patrick Crusius for the deadly mass..."

Sept. 29, 2023 News Feature

Texas Tribune Lays Off Journalists and Entire Copy Desk

Colleagues call it “a mistake” and “incomprehensible”

"...and criminal justice, in a rapidly changing, heavily incarcerated, death penalty state... incomprehensible.” Higher education reporter Kate McGee Balagia,..."

Aug. 23, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Court Rejects New Evidence in Rodney Reed Death Penalty Case

Reed has long claimed innocence

July 7, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Court Rejects New Evidence in Rodney Reed Death Penalty Case

Reed has long claimed innocence

"...Polunsky Unit in East Texas. He was sentenced to death by an all-white jury in 1998 for the rape..."

June 30, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...When Hasmukh Patel was shot to death in his San Antonio convenience store in 2004, it..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Row Inmate Fights to Have His Childhood Abuse Considered by a Jury

Anibal Canales’ jury didn’t know him, only his crime

"...Almost every person on Death Row grew up neglected and surrounded by violence. In..."

April 3, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Texas Tests Limits of Death Penalty With Mentally Ill Man on Death Row

"[The] applicant is clearly 'crazy,' but he is also 'sane' under Texas law."

"...Maurie Levin, the attorney representing death row inmate Andre Thomas, talked about what it's like..."

March 24, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Bill of the Week: Texans Take to the Capitol to Battle Discriminatory Property Bills

Who gets a piece of Texas?

"...continuing their calls for politicians to sponsor Iranians on death row for their participation in protests. They hope the..."

March 17, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Death Watch: Texas Set to Kill Two Men in One Week

And it might not matter how mentally ill they are

"...lives. But, as is true for almost everyone on death row, there was little mitigating evidence presented at their..."

March 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

We Have an Issue: A New Council Gets Down to Work

Austin City Council assembles, congrats to Chroniclers, and a new/old Rollo Banks Lunar New Year cover to relish

"...Congrats to News contributor and "Death Watch" columnist Brant Bingamon, who is one of two..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Does an Expired Execution Drug Make Death Painful?

Either way, the state killed Robert Fratta Tuesday

"...drug the state has used since 2012 to kill death row inmates, causes a burning sensation before death, constituting..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Penalty Report: We’re Mostly Killing People Sentenced Decades Ago

The popularity of killing criminals in the 80s and 90s still ripples through today

"...to execution every year at the height of the death penalty's popularity, from the 1980s through the early 2000s...."

Dec. 23, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Jana Birchum's Top 10 Photos of 2022

"...the Major League Soccer Playoffs. Fans celebrate winning the penalty kicks and getting the victory. Adding soccer to my..."

Dec. 15, 2022 Photo Gallery

Iranian Revolution Touches Austin

Woman, life, freedom

"...her (bmadaninejad@gmail.com) to sponsor prisoners who are unjustly on death row, as the international attention can help reduce the..."

Dec. 16, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Death Watch: Sane Enough to Die?

Schizophrenic prisoner scheduled to die next week

"...case is one of the most outrageous in the death penalty's history. Panetti was known to be very mentally..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Conveyor Belt to Lethal Injection Keeps Rolling

Ramirez will be prayed over as he dies

"...The Texas death penalty is often likened to a machine, an impersonal..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Father Forgave, Texas Doesn’t

Sarah Walker’s dad asked for mercy for his daughter’s accused killer

"...him at all. I don't want him put to death," Walker said. "I've had others who thought I was..."

Aug. 12, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Man Set to Die Pleads for His Life

Texas has executed 574 people since 1976; the Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommended clemency for five

"...for clemency is often the last legal move a death row inmate makes before the state of Texas carries..."

July 8, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Accused Murderer Kaitlin Armstrong’s Six Weeks in Paradise Come to an Abrupt End

Austin woman arrested in Costa Rica for killing of cyclist Mo Wilson

"...Following the breadcrumbs authorities have left us, here’s the..."

June 30, 2022 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

Melissa Lucio’s Execution Halted

The mother convicted for killing her daughter could receive a new trial

"...from the Innocence Project establishes that Mariah's bruises and death were the result of a brain injury sustained in..."

April 29, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Legislators Urge Abbott to Spare the Life of Woman on Death Row

Justice for Melissa Lucio?

"...prayed with Melissa Lucio last week at the women's death row prison in Gatesville, where she awaits her scheduled..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: A Mother Set to Die

Melissa Lucio says she didn't kill her daughter and half of the Texas House of Representatives agree

"...the state of Texas prepares to put her to death on April 27, Lucio's family, attorneys, and supporters –..."

April 8, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: SCOTUS Hears Texas Spiritual-Advisor Case

A prayer for the dying

"...of his client, John Henry Ramirez, two months earlier: Death row inmates have a Constitutional right to be accompanied..."

Nov. 12, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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