Every Day of Your Life

Remembering Sims Ellison, and profiling the SIMS Foundation

"...Roses were kings and dropped them in May '95 after treating them like any other band -- shabbily. Not..."

July 7, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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

Austin’s End-of-Life Doulas

A growing community looks to redefine palliative care

"...ear to dying people – in other words, an end-of-life doula. They stick by the dying person’s side long..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Lina Fisher

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

No Botox at the Death Cafe

Meeting looks past the 'wrinkles' of a taboo subject

"...straight from polite introductions to assisted suicide. It was, after all, a meeting of "Death Cafe." The entire point..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

A Double Life

Napoleon Beazley was executed by the state of Texas, but he lives again in a new play

"...Doe commits capital murder, and the statutory punishment is death by lethal injection...."

July 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Wilde Life

"...The Importance of Being Earnest, and in his own life (which he considered his ultimate work of art), Wilde..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

A Life of Destinations

"...but laughing. What was the joke, dammit? Even now, after all this time, all the roads we've traveled together,..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

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

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

Life and Nothing But

"...Angola, the former slave plantation now a maximum-security Louisiana "lifer" penitentiary -- the largest in the country -- which..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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

"...As one of two child life specialists in hospice at Dell Children’s hospital, Cosby asks..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Maggie Quinlan

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

A Young Man on Death Row

Juvenile offender Randy Arroyo's case puts Texas's execution factory on trial.

"...who hasn't shot or stabbed someone wind up on death row? Speaking quickly and precisely, Randy Arroyo explains the..."

Jan. 10, 2003 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Life, Death, and Shoofly Pie

Chatting with the Gourds' rabid online fan base, family through thick and BAD.

"...After Eric Christian Wagner died in the early morning hours..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Death Row Reviewed

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

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Clay 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

Death Watch: Quiet on Death Row

Pandemic halts the sputtering execution machine

"...people. Our state's juries sentenced just two people to death...."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

All My Life

True-life cancer romance is tepid chicken soup for the soul

"...point is that filmmakers contain multitudes, and All My Life is definitely a whiplash-inducing change of direction after his..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: After the Flood

When everything is gone, there is love, and the memory of love

"...– "After the Gold Rush," Neil Young..."

July 8, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Death Row Inmate Fights to Have His Childhood Abuse Considered by a Jury

Anibal Canales’ jury didn’t know him, only his crime

"...Almost every person on Death Row grew up neglected and surrounded by violence. In..."

April 3, 2023 News Post 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

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

Death Watch: Killer or Fall Guy?

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

"...On the afternoon of Dec. 17, 1999, in Beeville, Texas, correctional officer..."

April 24, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

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 Row Inmate Hoping for Supreme Intervention

Original defense attorney called no witnesses and presented no mitigating evidence

"...the shooting, opened fire on his former colleagues shortly after the car wash opened, killing five of six employees...."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...The French Revolution's personification of beauty, Marianne, once modeled after the Parisian actress, materialized fully formed out of the..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Senators Debate Life-Without-Parole Option

Death penalty proponents trot out predictable arguments against it

"...to offer jurors in capital cases a third, true life-without-parole sentencing option. The measure, which has become a perennial..."

March 25, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Anti-Death-Penalty Nun Talks “Bible Belt” and “Death Belt” in Austin

She calls execution the “apex” of a flawed punitive system

"...Sister Helen Prejean’s walk into the dark world of death row began with letters. It was part of her..."

April 11, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Death Watch: Conveyor Belt to Lethal Injection Keeps Rolling

Ramirez will be prayed over as he dies

"...The Texas death penalty is often likened to a machine, an impersonal..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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