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May 8, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Death Watch: Without Intervention, Travis Runnels Will Be the Ninth Texan Executed in 2019
A troubled life, a dishonest witness, a “changed man”
"...Wiley, and slit his throat. As Wiley bled to death, an inmate asked Runnels why he'd done it. "It..."
Dec. 6, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Death Watch: Can Texas Keep a Secret?
State Supreme Court grants rehearing in execution drug supplier case
"...The Texas Supreme Court caved under pressure last Friday,..."
Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Death Watch: Where’s Your Evidence?
Exculpatory testimony, DNA at issue in two landmark cases
"...the Bastrop man who's spent nearly 20 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites –..."
Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Death Watch: "No Need" for Mental Tests
James Bigby will be the fourth Texan executed in 2017
"...Worth native has spent the last 25 years on death row after a two-day killing spree that left four..."
March 10, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Death Watch: “An Intentional Smothering”
Tilon Carter says he never meant to kill James Tomlin
"...execution on Tuesday, Feb. 7, after 10 years on death row. The 37-year-old was convicted of capital murder in..."
Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Death Watch: Double Death Penalty
Garcia, convicted of capital murder, contends that his confessions were improperly admitted as evidence
"...murder for both slayings but only tried in Turski's death. Vargas was convicted of capital murder in Martin's death..."
Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
Point Austin: The Machinery of Death
Supreme Court quibbles about drugs and avoids the larger ethical issue
"...was its majority opinion in Glossip v. Gross, a death penalty case out of Oklahoma. The case was nominally..."
July 10, 2015 News Column by Michael King
Death Watch: Meth, Madness, and Death
Capital case tests limits of insanity defense
"...officer – Officer Marty Steinfeldt – being shot to death, as well. In the ambulance after the shootout, Sprouse..."
April 3, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
'Beginning With the End' teaches us not to fear the reaper
"...We Americans are weird about death. It is entertainment in the form of violent video..."
March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt
Death Watch: 501 and 502
After a short break, Texas resumes executions
"...murder. He was then charged, convicted, and sentenced to death for the slaying...."
July 12, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Death Watch: Last Minute Reprieve Sought for Condemned Woman
UPDATE: Judge postpones execution until April
"...become the 493rd inmate executed since reinstatement of the death penalty, the first woman executed since 2005, and the..."
Jan. 29, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith
Rick Perry Death Watch: Former Army Recruiter Scheduled To Die
Cleve Foster was convicted of a 2002 rape and murder
"...showed both men had sex with her before her death, but Foster insists he was passed out from sleeping..."
Sept. 21, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Death
Oh Death, where is thy sting?
"...Death comes but once in a lifetime, unless you're a..."
Nov. 6, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Death Penalty Won't Protect Children
"...Jan. 11 [News] article "Child Sexual Assault and the Death Penalty": It is a slippery slope we endeavor upon..."
Jan. 17, 2008 Postmarks
Supremes Hear Texas Death Penalty Cases
Supreme Court grapples once again with whether Texas death penalty scheme – and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' interpretation of its role in deciding death penalty cases – meets constitutional requirements
"...grappled with the complicated issue of whether the Texas death penalty scheme – and the Texas Court of Criminal..."
Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Rita Radostitz
Report Calls for Texas Death Penalty Reform
And people in hell want ice water
"...Earlier this month the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty handed state lawmakers its assessment of the state's..."
Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Death Penalty Rethinking
"...to consider a friend since I wrote him on death row six years ago. In the days leading to..."
Aug. 4, 2005 Postmarks
Life, Death, and Shoofly Pie
Chatting with the Gourds' rabid online fan base, family through thick and BAD.
"...Elaine Magnolia Wagner was named. One week before his death, he discussed with the band taking over the Gourds'..."
Sept. 13, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Death on the Nile
Brannagh's back for another ride under the detective's moustache
"...backstory? In this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1937 whodunit Death on the Nile, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh..."
Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Death Watch: Last-Ditch Efforts to Avert 2019’s First Execution
Robert Jennings files new motions in 1988 murder case
"...Jennings, now 61, was convicted of capital murder for..."
Jan. 25, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Death Watch: The Constitutionality of Intent
What if the people you killed were not who you hoped to kill?
"...Worth was convicted of capital murder for the 2008 deaths of 5-year-old Queshawn Stevenson and her grandmother Annette at..."
April 20, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Death Watch: Conflicts of Interest
What to do when your appelate attorney's headed to work for the D.A.?
"...The state's death chamber fires up again after a year in which..."
Jan. 6, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
Death Watch: Executing the Mentally (and Physically) Ill
Texas gets ready to execute a schizophrenic man
"...trial than for the crime that put him on death row. Panetti was sentenced to death in Sept. 1995..."
Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
Stages of Death
Life lessons from the mortuary to the theatre
"...has my view of life been profoundly shaped by death; so, too, has my work in the theatre...."
Oct. 11, 2013 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts
Death Watch: Madness and Forensics
Two capital cases raise psychological and evidentiary issues
"...506th inmate to die here since reinstatement of the death penalty, and, according to the Death Penalty Information Center,..."
Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Death Watch
No place for mitigation
"...involvement in drugs that would eventually send him to death row. According to records, in 2003 Parr arranged a..."
May 3, 2013 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
Dissecting the Science of Death
1998 murder case will get a scientific examination
"...The question of whether the science of death and decomposition can prove that Larry Swearingen, now on..."
Feb. 24, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Rick Perry Death Watch
Governor goes two for two this week
"...bring the total to 480 since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976...."
