Search

"...Although his lawyer says he was denied effective assistance of defense counsel at his capital trial in 1999,..."

"...two men to the crime, as did a number of witnesses who testified that Campbell, 18 at the time..."

"...Defender Service, alleging prosecutorial misconduct, inept investigative work, and ineffective assistance of counsel, asked that a federal judge vacate..."

"...Jan. 30, 2003, was supposed to be a day off for Victoria Gutierrez. Instead, the then-19-year-old Mexican immigrant was..."

"...during a botched robbery attempt in the living room of a two-bedroom apartment in McAllen, where Nichols lived when..."

"...April 25. The 31-year-old from Fort Worth was convicted of capital murder for the 2008 deaths of 5-year-old Queshawn..."

"...Can a legal resident of the U.S. be deported for simple pot possession? And..."

"...The U.S. Supreme Court in a pair of opinions today has recognized the importance of plea bargains..."

"...A 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Texas..."

"...prior accounts, Billy Crutsinger confessed to the double homicide of Pearl Magouirk and her daughter Pat Syren shortly after..."

"...A divided Court of Criminal Appeals this morning declined an appeal from condemned..."

"...federal district judge in Houston has stayed the execution of serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells and that of another..."

"...The Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday declined to consider an appeal..."

"...1994, Carl Blue stood outside the College Station apartment of his former girlfriend, Carmen Richards-Sanders, holding a cup of..."

"...McDonald and his two friends had just come out of a club in Navarro County and gotten into his..."

"...The Court of Criminal Appeals last week denied a stay of execution..."

"...from brain damage and schizophrenia, has filed a flurry of court motions since his death date was set in..."

"...The state of Texas had planned to execute Rodney Reed next Thursday,..."

"...place, but things went sideways. When retired law enforcement officer Victor Billings, there with his wife Linda, tried to..."

"...Jesse Hernandez, sentenced to die for the 2001 murder of an 11-month-old boy in Dallas. Hernandez would be the..."

"...to new data compiled by the Innocence Proj­ect. (Allegations of prosecutor misconduct were raised in another 124 cases, but..."

"...11, on Wednesday, Oct. 10, though his recently appointed counsel is still working on his case...."

"...earlier this year. Now, the Travis County District Attorney's Office, under fire for its own handling of these cases,..."

"...The Court of Criminal Appeals has asked lawyers for Rosa Jimenez and..."

"...by the San Antonio policeman who would soon learn of his warrants, 20-year-old Manuel Fernando Garza escaped Officer John..."

"...death chamber will gear up to take the first of five lives before the end of 2013 with the..."

"...alcohol and crack cocaine and was under the influence of a cocktail of both the night he killed his..."

"...him in the head back in 1998. Kincaid was off-duty and driving his personal vehicle when Haynes drove by;..."

"...the 300th death row inmate executed since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976. But a review of Banks'..."

"...away completely. On Wednesday, Nov. 21, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the $300/hour payment to the..."