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

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

Death Watch: How Much Remorse, Repentance Is Enough?

Family of victim – and killer – wants sentence commuted

"...Quintin Jones is one of many on Texas' death row who grew up in brutal conditions and committed..."

May 14, 2021 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

Death Watch: No Comfort, No Closure

Jonas Cherry's parents don't want their son's killer killed

"...was found guilty of capital murder, and sentenced to death...."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Two More Executions Will Make Three in Five Weeks

Executions accelerate in 2015

"...White was sentenced to death in 1995 for the murders of Bonita Edwards and..."

Jan. 30, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Reed Appeal Rejected at 5th Circuit

Lawyers consider next move

"...10 rejected the latest appeal from Rodney Reed, on death row for the rape and murder of Stacey Stites...."

Jan. 17, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Penalty: Older but Not Wiser

New report looks back at 35 years of the death penalty

"...Thirty-five years after the death penalty was reinstated by the nation's highest court, it..."

July 1, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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

All Aboard for the Death Penalty Express

Republicans aim to kill federal appeals law

"...– opening up an express lane to the Texas death chamber and making it inevitable that an innocent person..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Death Row Reviewed

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

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Clay Smith

Opinion: One Year Later, Local Leaders Must Be Bold Despite “Death Star” Law

A San Marcos city council member urges localities to push back on anti-democratic forces and address their communities’ urgent needs

"...Houston sued the state of Texas to overturn the “Death Star” law, sweeping state legislation crafted to paralyze local..."

July 5, 2024 Column by Alyssa Garza

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: Supreme Court Halts John Henry Ramirez's Execution Over Religious Freedom Appeal

Court will hear Ramirez's case for pastor's touch during execution this fall

"...John Henry Ramirez was ready to be put to death on Sept. 8 for the killing of Corpus Christi..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: The Stays Stop Here?

After a quiet COVID season, Texas' death row machine rumbles back to life

"...Hummel. Convicted of bludgeoning his wife and daughter to death in Ft. Worth in 2009, Hummel received a stay..."

June 25, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: Crutsinger Seeks Last-Ditch SCOTUS Appeal

Following the Aug. 21 execution of Larry Swearingen, Crutsinger could be the fifth Texan killed this year

"...his 2003 trial, Crutsinger has continued to fight his death sentence, even as his options dwindle and his Sept...."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: One Man Spared, Another Set to Die

Mark Robertson seeks stay due to racist lawyer

"...ministers from the Huntsville execution chamber. Before his scheduled death, Murphy requested his Buddhist adviser be present during lethal..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Shaken Science

Appeal rests on new research into Shaken Baby Syndrome

"...is "dim-witted" and "mentally ill." The 49-year-old, sentenced to death in 2003 for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old..."

June 17, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: A Drug Shortage

How will Texas kill people if it runs out of the drugs to do it?

"...uses in conjunction with other drugs to kill its death row inmates...."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: The Wrong Man?

Rodney Reed execution stayed

"...late May 1998, Reed was convicted and sentenced to death...."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Homicide, Drugs, Mental Incapacity

Garcia Glen White's time is running out

"...second of those three that sent the now-51-year-old to death row. In 1989, White was at the home of..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

UPDATED: Death Watch: Most Notorious

Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells scheduled for execution

"...the source of drugs used to put them to death...."

April 2, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

Proposed Bills Address Death Penalty

Meanwhile, Texas' death machine churns stronger than ever

"...Mexico Legislature on March 13 voted to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with a life-without-parole sentence. The measure..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Note

From page to screen

"...magic, the way a shinigami, a Japanese god of death, provides a death note to protagonist Light Yagami in..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was on fire. Death squads, the pistoleros of a despised governor, rolled through..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

Against Death Penalty

"...week Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death for murdering Dean Harold Meyers in Virginia. I cannot..."

March 12, 2004 Postmarks

The Death Issue: Austin’s Children’s Hospice Professionals Advocate for Honesty

None of us get out of this alive, so let’s talk about it

"...wishes and also advocate for honest, clear language about death. They say to use that word – death, dying,..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Maggie Quinlan

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 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

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