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Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Death Penalty
This past November, we posted a blog about the death penalty conviction of Ariel Escobar, who was sitting on Texas’ death row at the time, awaiting execution.
Escobar was convicted for the May 31, 2009, rape and murder of 17-year-old…
On November 14, 2022, Taylor Renee Parker became the seventh woman to arrive on Texas’ death row. The 29-year-old Parker was convicted on October 4, 2022, of capital murder by a Bowie County jury. On November 9, 2022, the jury …
Category: Capital Crimes | Criminal Law | Death Penalty
On November 9, 2022, the State of Texas executed 61-year-old Tracy Lane Beatty. He was the 577th person put to death by lethal injection in this State since 1982. Scores of these individuals were executed despite highly credible evidence of…
Category: Death Penalty
On May 31, 2009, 17-year-old Bianca Maldonado was found dead in an Austin, Texas, apartment she shared with her mother and sister. She had been stabbed 43 times and cut 30 times with two different sharp instruments. Her infant son…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
On July 29, 2022, Joe Nathan Jones, Jr. was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. in the death chamber at a prison in southern Alabama. Media witnesses said that before the death pronouncement was made, Jones lay motionless on the death…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty | Prosecutorial Misconduct
After her November 2016 election as district attorney of Harris County, Kim Ogg said she would reduce the use of the death penalty with all its racial discrimination and unfairness.
Five and one-half years into the Ogg administration has taught…
Category: Death Penalty | Federal Criminal Law
The death penalty is generally a state matter. Until the thirteen executionswere carried out during the Trump presidency, there had not been a federal execution since 2003.
President Joe Biden stated last year that there would be no executions…
On April 21, 2022, Texas executed Carl Wayne Buntion by lethal injection. He was 78 years old—the oldest prisoner ever executed in Texas.
By the time of his execution, Buntion had been in prison two months shy of 32 years—more…
Category: Criminal Law | Death Penalty
On February 17, 2007, paramedics in Harlingen, Texas, responded to a call at an apartment shared by Melissa Lucio and her husband, Robert Alvarez. The EMTs found the couple’s two-year-old daughter, Mariah, unresponsive and, according to police reports, covered with…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The death penalty is the ultimate punishment imposed in the American criminal justice system.
One hundred eight countries have completely abolished the death penalty, while another 55 have effectively abolished it by not executing anyone over the last ten years,…
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