Death Row Inmate Seeks Stay

Appeal charges Hernandez received ineffective assistance by counsel

"...inmate executed by the state since reinstatement of the death penalty. The Court of Criminal Appeals last week rejected..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Stalled Hearing Put Death Penalty on Trial

John Edward Green's murder trial began with testimony on wrongful convictions

"...to prove this week that Texas' imposition of the death penalty is capricious – so much so as to..."

Dec. 10, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Ten Seconds to Death

What we know – so far – about the police shooting of Nathaniel Sanders II

"...passed-out asleep to being a few breaths short of death...."

Aug. 14, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

House Tweaks Death Penalty Law

Kenneth Foster Act aims to clean things up

"...Act. The measure would block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty for defendants tried under the so-called "law of..."

May 22, 2009 News Column by Jordan Smith

Against Death Penalty and Abortion

"...in this? Where is the rationale for protesting the death of a human being who was once part of..."

Aug. 7, 2008 Postmarks

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...of emotion. You have to have all these things. "Death Valley Nights" is one where it was just me..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

UT Profs Argue Death Penalty Cases Before Supreme Court

In an unusual set of legal circumstances, UT Capital Punishment Center co-director argues to justices that they should refrain from ruling on cases he previously brought to them

"...consider evidence that would mitigate against a sentence of death. Adbul-Kabir (formerly known as Ted Cole) was convicted and..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Supremes Give Death Row Inmate Another Chance

Supreme Court orders new trial for South Carolina death row inmate, ruling state courts erred by excluding evidence that another man may have committed the crime

"...2 ordered a new trial for a South Carolina death row inmate, ruling that state courts erred by excluding..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Ignore the Flaws – the Death Penalty Must Continue On

Despite possible errors here and elsewhere, Perry stands firm on capital punishment

"...a single inmate in the modern era of the death penalty. Nonetheless, Republican Sen. Robert Martin, a co-sponsor of..."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

McArdle's Death No Accident

"...steps, and kicked Terence in the head, causing his death. These deliberate actions were the antithesis of an accident...."

Nov. 9, 2005 Postmarks

Weed Watch: Meddling Federal Lawmakers Share Blame in Senseless Medi-Pot Death

Barr and co. prevented D.C. voters from enacting law

"...federal lawmakers share equal responsibility for 27-year-old Jonathan Magbie's death. Indeed, if Congress hadn't meddled with the will of..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Letter From Death Row

Our condemned cover artist makes his case

"...set up with a system of checks and balances. Death row prisoners go through a lengthy appeals process because..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by James V. Allridge

Abortion Produces Death

"...world produces more of its own kind. Abortion produces death. Approximately 1½ years ago I asked my ethics professor..."

Dec. 22, 2003 Postmarks

Supreme Court Ponders Banks' Death Row Case

The U.S. Supreme Court grants a last-minute stay to Delma Banks, Jr.

"...inmate executed in Texas since the resumption of the death penalty in 1976. It was Banks' 15th execution date..."

March 21, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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

Wisconsin Death Trip

"...fanaticism ran rampant. Narrator Ian Holm reads the newspaper death accounts on the soundtrack while the voluminous death photographs..."

Feb. 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On Death & Dying

Did TV Coverage Trivialize Barbara Jordan?

"...prominence as well as her numerous Austin ties, her death was the top story on all four of the..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Column

Ken Paxton Blocks Death Row Inmate Robert Roberson From Testifying at Capitol

A.G. says reps won’t compromise; committee chair says he’s lying

"...General Ken Paxton would find a way to silence death row inmate Robert Roberson, to keep him from telling..."

Dec. 27, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Goes Shopping

"...Kudos to you for devoting an entire issue to death, the “king of terrors.” ["The Death Issue," Oct. 18]..."

Oct. 16, 2024 Postmarks

Texas Maternal Mortality Task Force Hasn’t Counted Abortion Death Cases for 10 Years

Committee members discovered longtime omission this year

"...maternal mortality review committees are tasked with analyzing pregnancy-related deaths and reporting information to their respective states and the..."

March 22, 2024 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

Texas “Death Star” Law Ruled Unconstitutional Two Days Before Taking Effect

But Texas is likely to appeal

"...in July argued that the law (known as the “Death Star” law) was state overreach and too vague to..."

Aug. 30, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Houston Sues the State Over “Death Star" Law

Lawsuit cities state overreach, vague language, and undue burden on cities

"...The city of Houston hopes to preempt the state's "Death Star" law, a bill passed by the Texas Legislature..."

July 14, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Death Watch: Lies on the Stand and an Execution Delayed

The state won't kill Ivan Cantu this month after all

"...Cantu, now 49, was sent to death row in 2001 for the murders of his cousin,..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Shocking Evidence of a Thoroughly Racist Trial

Of course the state still wants to kill this prisoner

"...sentence, telling the other jurors that sentencing Balentine to death was "biblically justified." He was so strongly against a..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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 Row Inmates Say Expired Drug Makes Execution Painful, Cruel

Robert Fratta set to die Tuesday night

"...The first three prisoners facing death – Robert Fratta (tomorrow night, Jan. 10), Wesley Ruiz,..."

Jan. 9, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Oblivion Access Adds Danny Brown, Grouper, Death Grips’ Andy Morin and More

Experimental festival finalizes lineup for May 12-15

"...Iconic Detroit rapper/personality Danny Brown and Death Grips’ Andy Morin, who recently announced a self-run new..."

Feb. 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Levitation Live Shot: High on Fire, Power Trip, Devil Master, Creeping Death

Sold-out metal four stack kept widening the mosh pit

"...Dallas quintet Creeping Death opened with a 30-minute set of savage death metal,..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

Death, Grief, and Buddhism in Fantastic Fest’s The Long Walk

Laotian cinema pioneer Mattie Do's patiently ponderous tale

"...It's soft and contemplative, a patiently ponderous tale about death that's her most mature film yet. She explained, "The..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Ben Kweller Stares Death in the Face

“Heart Attack Kid” practices optimism after near-fatal incident

"...“Staring death in the face like that just rattled me to..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

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