The Death of Ben Brownlee

A Rockdale teenager's suicide raises questions about official protections for gay and transgendered kids

"...Less than 24 hours after his death, Johle heard a disturbing rumor that, in the weeks..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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

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

Morbid Curiosity: A Card Game About Death

Shedding the stigma of the inevitable

"...by creating Morbid Curiosity – a card game about death. She said, "This is what it would be like...."

May 12, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: Killer or Fall Guy?

Was Daniel Nagle murdered by a man acting alone, or was it part of a larger conspiracy?

"...AFSCME union president Daniel Nagle was found stabbed to death inside his office. No witnesses immediately came forward...."

April 24, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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

No Botox at the Death Cafe

Meeting looks past the 'wrinkles' of a taboo subject

"...assisted suicide. It was, after all, a meeting of "Death Cafe." The entire point was to broach an otherwise..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Death and the Unpatriotic Act

Among amendments tacked onto newest version of the PATRIOT Act is a section allowing U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to grant legal fast-track for death-penalty appeals in states that have enacted standards for attorney appointments to indigent death row inmates

"...President George W. Bush has offered fans of Texas' death penalty system another chance to expedite the capital punishment..."

March 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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

Death Watch: No Chaplain Needed Now in Murphy Case

Texas Seven member faces execution on Nov. 13 for a second time

"...Officials in charge of executions at the Walls Unit..."

Nov. 8, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Is Randall Mays "Competent" to Die?

Trial court stays execution to consider if he's mentally unfit, again

"...that Randall Mays is "competent" to be put to death. But his execution, scheduled for Oct. 16, was postponed..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: As Execution Pace Quickens, a 30-Day Stay for Barbee

Meanwhile, Randy Halprin loses 5CA appeal and Rodney Reed supporters fight for justice

"...admission was likely a strategy to spare Barbee the death penalty; he said it came as a complete surprise...."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: 11 Face Execution in Coming Months

A quiet summer gives way to a deadly fall

"...months since Texas has been able to execute a death row inmate, but the quiet summer is leading into..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: The Capital of Capital Punishment

Tilon Carter set for execution – again

"...based on a technicality involving the filing of his death warrant, so the Court of Crim­inal Appeals ordered the..."

May 12, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: The Capital Aggravation Question

Does Lisa Ann Coleman deserve to die?

"...(the state agency charged with representing inmates appealing a death sentence) filed an application for retrial with the Texas..."

Sept. 12, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Racial Bias Infected Sentencing Hearing

Saga to secure new hearing for Duane Buck continues

"...That's the message of a statement of support for death row inmate Buck released Wednesday and signed by 102..."

March 21, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Death Penalty in Practice

"...too close attention to such things – the Texas death machine, headquartered in Austin and administered in Huntsville, is..."

Aug. 1, 2008 News Feature by Michael King

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

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: 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

19 Years On, Anti-Death Penalty March Sees Progress

Yet time is running out for Ruben Gutierrez, Rodney Reed

"...Cobb put together the first March to Abolish the Death Penalty in 2000, so when he speaks on the..."

Oct. 25, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Failures at Trial Anchor Last-Chance Appeal for Sparks

If SCOTUS does not act, Sparks will be the third man executed in Texas this month

"...him. He stabbed her and his two stepsons to death and raped his two stepdaughters, but he felt he'd..."

Sept. 20, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: A Dying Breed

Can Texas even carry out an execution anymore?

"...Officials down at Texas' once-proud and prolific death chamber must be beginning to wonder if they'll ever..."

Sept. 9, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Mental Illness Claims Fail; Death Awaits

After a 2005 murder, Clifton Williams is set to be executed

"...next Thursday, July 16, after nine years spent on death row for the murder of Cecelia Schneider...."

July 10, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Q&A Hole: What's One Good Thing About Death?

With Marc Savlov, Steve Moore, Elizabeth Doss, Ken Webster, and more

"...a few people to name one good thing about death. And the macabre subject brought the usual mix of..."

April 8, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The View From Death Row

Next week's scheduled execution, plus the latest on the Rodney Reed case

"...to be the next victim of Texas' machinery of death – and the 487th inmate executed in the state..."

Oct. 5, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Penalty Off the Hook

Preemptive strike against wrongful conviction fails in murder trial prehearing

"...Having halted a December hearing into whether the death penalty is constitutional as applied in the case of..."

Jan. 21, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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

Death Puts Tasers in Spotlight Again

Officers quickly returned to duty, ME's report still out

"...Although an official cause-of-death determination has not yet been made, the APD officers..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Crimes of Passion and Desperation in Love & Death

In HBO Max's Love & Death, director Lesli Linka Glatter and star Patrick Fugit revisit one of Texas' most infamous murders

"...a path to that led to directing Love & Death, the new true-crime drama from HBO, debuting at this..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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