Innocence Network Honors "Incendiary"

"Incendiary: The Willingham Case" doc wins journalism award

"...innocent man being released from death row – a Texas death row, I might add...."

April 2, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Defending the Innocent in Texas

The Texas Center for Actual Innocence is open for business at the UT Law School

"...professor Bill Allison received a call from the Wisconsin Innocence Project asking if he would act as local counsel..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Texas Still Leads Nation in Executions

New death sentences continue to decline & exonerations keep coming

"...Only nine new death sentences were handed out in Texas this year, a 76% decline since 2002, according to..."

Dec. 18, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Songs of Innocence and Experience

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

"...over it like doting relatives. Especially in this blistering Texas summer, the place takes on the role of turgid..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Without Evidence: Executing Frances Newton

Another Texas death row case marked by official carelessness, negligence, and intransigence

"...Unless the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Rick Perry..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Smart Enough to Die

In 2002, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants. Still, Texas finds a way.

"...according to court testimony; and was placed in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Mentally Retarded Offenders Program during..."

April 19, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Callous Keller Strikes Again

Judge lies in zeal to send convict to the death chamber.

"...the Oct. 4 San Antonio Express-News article on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision to ignore the last-minute..."

Oct. 9, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

Anthony Graves Update

Seeking to overturn a lower court's ruling that death row inmate Anthony Graves must be given a new trial by Sept. 12, AG's office files final appeal to U.S. Supreme Court

"...Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office has filed a final..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Judge Orders Posthumous DNA Testing

Did the state execute an innocent man?

"...District Judge Paul Murphy ruled that the state of Texas must turn over biological evidence – that was set..."

June 25, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

More From Death Row ...

Inmate Anthony Graves gets new hearing on his appeal

"...a press release from Houston's University of St. Thomas Innocence Project – a joint venture between journalism students from..."

Oct. 8, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Breaking stories from Austin and beyond

"...investigator James McLaughlin, president and general counsel for the Texas Police Chiefs Association, his inquiry is – drum roll,..."

April 23, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Temporary Freedom for Anthony Graves?

Judge recommends Texas death row inmate Anthony Graves be released while awaiting retrial

"...Magistrate Judge John Froeschner recommended on Oct. 4 that Texas death row inmate Anthony Graves be released on $50,000..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Harris County Death Penalty: Race matters

New study shows race a factor in capital sentences

"...Anyone who follows capital murder cases in Texas has observed that race plays a role in who..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Pruett Gets 60-Day Delay Pending DNA Testing

A death row inmate is granted a rare reprieve

"...According to the state of Texas, on Dec. 17, 1999, Robert Pruett, 20, took a..."

May 17, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postscripts

Upcoming literary events in Austin.

"...8, at 7pm, to discuss the formation of the Texas Innocence Network and to present his book Actual Innocence:..."

June 9, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

On the Outside

Delia Perez Meyer fights to prove her brother's innocence

"...Proving her brother's innocence became "99 percent" of her focus. Two years after..."

April 29, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Judge 'Killer' Keller to Face Trial

Bad karma over refusal to hear appeal of death row inmate

"...failure" to follow the court's execution-day procedures, violating the Texas Consti­tu­tion and the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. Her..."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Burnam Calls for Impeachment of Killer Keller

State Rep. Lon Burnam wants the Texas House to impeach Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon "Killer" Keller

"...2007, Keller refused to accept the last-minute appeal of Texas death row inmate Michael Richard, whose lawyers were seeking..."

Feb. 17, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Newton Executed: No Relief

On Wednesday, Frances Newton became the first black woman to be executed in the state since the Civil War

"...Frances Newton became the third woman to die in Texas' death chamber since executions resumed in 1982, and the..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Who Killed Father Ryan?

A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence

"...South Austin, and who spent 20 years in a Texas prison for a murder he says he did not..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...time, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the Texas re-redistricting case. Our Michael King is in Washington and..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

March Against Executions

This year's Texas Moratorium Network-organized march to focus on execution of innocents

"...The seventh annual march against executions organized by the Texas Moratorium Network will focus this year on the execution..."

Oct. 13, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Advocates Push District Attorney to “No Call” Biased Cops

Criminal justice groups ask Moore to box out untrustworthy officers

"...the public trust.” The letter is signed by the Texas Fair Defense Project, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, Grassroots Leadership,..."

Dec. 4, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Gov. Hang 'Em High?

Perry reaches a killing milestone

"...Under his leadership, 200 people have been executed in Texas – more executions than have proceeded under any other..."

June 3, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Framing the Guilty?

Houston police thought they had their man – so the evidence was no problem

"...large, overgrown field of tall trees dissected by a network of weed-choked trails. The restaurant parking lot was well-lit,..."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lege Notes

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

"...left pending in committee. SB 544 would create the Texas Capital Punishment Commission to study the state's death system,..."

April 8, 2005 News Column

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...down with the Taming of the West (including seminal Texas cowboy tale Red River and the state's defining epic..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Is there a double standard of justice here in Texas?..."

June 24, 2005 Column

Postmarks

Losing Our Lunch

"...which as odd as it may sound is about innocence -- the innocence of desire. A german shepherd friend..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Freedom for the Kellers

Fran and Dan released after 21 years for 'satanic abuse'

"...and Nineties, were accused of being part of a network of Satan worshippers who abused children taken to day..."

Dec. 6, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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