Court Rules Judge Didn't Have Right to Forcibly Medicate Death Row Inmate

Keller says any competency is good enough for death

"...have the legal right to force a mentally ill death row inmate to be medicated in order to make..."

Sept. 11, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Chief Judge: New Panel Will Be Assigned to Consider Death Row Appeal

Execution still slated for tomorrow

"...to be assigned to review the case of Texas death row inmate Elroy Chester who argues that comments made..."

June 11, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: A Reprieve From Death Row

Clinton Young's death sentence overturned over legal misconduct

"...of Criminal Appeals has overturned the murder conviction and death sentence of prisoner Clinton Young after finding that a..."

Oct. 8, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Study: More Innocents on Death Row Than Previously Thought

Number could be higher in larger criminal justice system

"...In his 2006 dissent in a Kansas death penalty case, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued..."

April 28, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Why Is Doil Lane Still on Death Row?

Despite a Supreme Court ban on the execution of the mentally retarded, those prisoners remain on Texas' death row.

"...the small cage that is the visiting room for death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston. His..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Death Row Dilemma

Resistant to Change

"...In federal court, two death row inmates -- Danny Lee Barber and Joseph Stanley..."

Jan. 22, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

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

Saving body and soul

"...four men in clean white clothes standing before a row of prison bars. They cluster around a large blue..."

Oct. 13, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Quiet on Death Row

Pandemic halts the sputtering execution machine

"...people. Our state's juries sentenced just two people to death...."

Dec. 25, 2020 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

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

State Prepares to Kill Murderer, Spiritual Leader on Death Row

Ramiro Gonzales has “so much potential”

"...In the last couple of years, death row inmates have begun to include videos in the..."

June 21, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A Young Man on Death Row

Juvenile offender Randy Arroyo's case puts Texas's execution factory on trial.

"...who hasn't shot or stabbed someone wind up on death row? Speaking quickly and precisely, Randy Arroyo explains the..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: After 45 Years on Death Row, Sentence Overturned

Appeals court rules mentally ill inmate can't be executed

"...The sentence of the longest-serving death row inmate in the United States, Raymond Riles, was..."

April 23, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Death Row Reviewed

"...Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Eraby the editors of..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Clay Smith

Death Watch: Execution Stalled for Death Row Inmate Turned Preacher

Will Speer's life will continue ... for the moment

"...The life and ministry of death row inmate Will Speer will continue, for the moment...."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Row Inmates' Sentences Overturned

Supremes overturn death sentences of three Texas inmates, sending them back to state courts and calling into question the death sentences of dozens of other inmates

"...The U.S. Supreme Court overturned on April 25 the death sentences of three Texas death row inmates, sending them..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Mixed Trends on Death Row

Dallas County surges forward in new death penalty sentences

"...counties, Harris County has sent the most defendants to death row since 1976, when capital punishment was reinstated. But..."

Dec. 27, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Row Study: Worse Than We Thought

Report says 4.1% of death row defendants in the U.S. are innocent

"...believe that the number of wrongfully convicted inmates on death row is vastly exaggerated...."

May 2, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Keel-Hauling Death Row Defendants

Austin Rep. wants to fast-track federal appeals, speed up executions

"...in the nation to fast-track federal appeals for indigent death row defendants – clearing the way for the state..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Supremes to Examine Death Row Appeals

Supreme Court agrees to hear three Texas death row appeals during its new term

"...U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear three Texas death row appeals during its new term, which begins this..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Innocent Man Off Death Row

Ernest Ray Willis exonerated after 18 years behind bars

"...Oct. 7, Ernest Ray Willis walked away from Texas' death row a free man – the eighth condemned prisoner..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Song of Life on Death Row

How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.

"...one that deals, as so many operas do, with death. Were it a wooden scaffold, with steps the prisoner..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas' 'Lethal Indifference' Blasted in New Death-Row Report

A new Texas Defenders Service study charges the state Court of Criminal Appeals ignores death-row inmates' rights and its own legal mandate.

"...from the Texas Defender Service charges that inmates on death row are faced with incompetent attorneys, and an impotent..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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

Death Watch: Can "Abandonment Rage" Spare Death Row Inmate's Life?

SCOTUS considers what could be Texas' first execution of 2020

"...In the months before her death, Tammy Gardner told friends and family, "The only way..."

Jan. 10, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Nichols Execution: Another Texas death row travesty

Prosecutorial misconduct includes hiding crucial witness

"...second trial ended with a guilty verdict and a death sentence...."

March 2, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Row Inmate Hoping for Supreme Intervention

Original defense attorney called no witnesses and presented no mitigating evidence

"...killing five of six employees. He was sentenced to death for the murders of cashier Rhoda Wheeler and assistant..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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

Death Watch: Longtime Death Row Inmate Dies

Max Soffar has died of liver cancer

"...Polunsky Unit in Livingston, after spending 36 years on death row. Soffar, 60, had long suffered from liver cancer...."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

A Death Row Inmate's 'Last 40 Miles'

Fundraising party and trailer debut to happen Wednesday night

"...for their animated short, “The Last 40 Miles,” and throwing a fundraising party with the works: from drinks and..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Screens Post by Eli Black

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