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Concerns About Death Penalty
"...Khristian Oliver was executed for murder. Why was the death penalty on the charge? Because the jurors consulted the..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Postmarks

New Jersey Might Nix Death Penalty
“I think it is part of this bigger picture where the death penalty is on the defensive.”
"...It appears New Jersey is poised to abolish the death penalty. The state has eight men on death row..."

Nov. 21, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

Death to the Sex Offenders!
Debbie Riddle truly lives up to her name.
"...step closer to sentencing repeat child molesters to the death penalty, as House Bill 8 continues its rapid sprint..."

March 6, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Death Star and Fat Boy
The "invisible hand" of utility deregulation looks an awful lot like Ken Lay's.
"...maneuvers to which they gave juvenile but revealing nicknames: "Death Star," "Fat Boy," "Ricochet," and "Get Shorty." (The point..."

May 17, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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

Death Watch: Lawmakers Ask for Rodney Reed Reprieve
Texas House Criminal Justice Reform Caucus joins celebrities, activists asking to stay the Nov. 20 execution
"...gone from a weekly to a daily occurrence. The death row inmate's attorneys filed an application for clemency with..."

Nov. 8, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: King Set to Die for James Byrd Lynching
Last-minute appeal seeks new trial as King maintains his innocence
"...Only two of 2019's five (so far) scheduled executions..."

April 19, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Intellectually Disabled or Mentally Ill?
Three cases raise the question
"...was scheduled for June 21. Williams was sentenced to death in 2006 for killing a 93-year-old woman in a..."

June 15, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Graveside at The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci on monsters and accents
"...Stalin died in 1953. In Iannucci's latest film, The Death of Stalin, the larger-than-life soldier is given boisterous bluster..."

March 23, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death By Festival Brings the Horror and Metal for a Good Cause
13 hours of ghoulish cinematic creations
"...Scaring is caring. When the inaugural Death By Festival splatters the walls and shakes the foundations..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: DNA Testing Denied for Rodney Reed
Reed and Pruett strike out. But justice for Duane Buck?
"...Reed has been on death row since receiving a death sentence in 1998 for..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Lege Lines: Don’t Blame the Death Worm
The Texas House wants to kill off "film incentives"
"...held up a copy of the 2010 film Mongolian Death Worm...."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faces of Death
"...Death Hymn Number 9Wed. 15, Hotel Vegas Annex, 9:30pm L.A...."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Death Watch: A Death Sentence for $1.25
John Ramirez goes to the gurney for a murder committed during a robbery
"...injection on Thursday, Feb. 2. He was sentenced to death in 2008 after murdering Pablo Castro in Corpus Christi..."

Jan. 27, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Death Watch: Matters of Incompetence
How smart must one be to stand for execution? In Texas, not that smart.
"...an appeal argued Monday, Nov. 14, by attorneys for death row inmate John Bat­taglia, who believe their client is..."

Dec. 2, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: A First Time for Everything
Execution date withdrawn for Perry Williams after state fails to retest lethal drugs
"...Texas death row inmate Perry Williams saw his Thursday (July 14)..."

July 15, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Unhappy New Year
Masterson found guilty of capital murder of Shane Honeycutt, set to die Jan. 20
"...Master­son, 43, who's spent the past 14 years on death row for the murder of Darin Shane Honey­cutt. Masterson..."

Jan. 15, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch
Just because you have a right to a lawyer, doesn't mean that they have to be any good
"...14. He hardly stood a chance at escaping the death penalty from that moment on...."

April 10, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Death Watch: Texecutioners vs. the World
Capital case raises questions of international consular rights
"...of Justice order, to ensure that Mexican nationals on death row in Texas were afforded the legal protections assured..."

Jan. 17, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Running Low on Poison
The state of Texas has three executions' worth of pentobarbitol
"...execution of the year on July 31, putting to death Douglas Feldman, convicted of the murder of two truck..."

Aug. 9, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Watch
Chester to die June 12
"...the 499th Texas inmate executed since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976...."

June 7, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Hunted'/'The Grapes of Death'
Horror auteur Rollin abandons vampires for mental decline
"...releases from the auteur. Yet both The Grapes of Death and Night of the Hunted are the antithesis of..."

April 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Two More in Line for Death Penalty
These two men were both 19 when they were sentenced to death
"...deliberated for three days before sentencing the teen to death...."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Texas Goes Through With Wilson Execution
Supreme Court declines to intervene in case of man with IQ of 61
"...Even in death, questions remain about whether Wilson was actually mentally disabled..."

Aug. 8, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

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

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