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From Texas Standard . Texas is re-upping a request to “opt in” to a federal law that would speed up the execution appeals process in the state,...
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House lawmakers at the state Capitol are examining what action, if any, the legislature should take during the 2019 legislative session regarding the…
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From Texas Standard . Thomas Bartlett Whitaker wasn’t supposed to be alive now. He was scheduled to be the fourth person executed in Texas this year,...
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Executions of death row inmates occurred in only eight states in 2017 as public support for capital punishment wanes, according to an annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center.
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From Texas Standard: In 1985, Pedro Solis Sosa was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing a sheriff's deputy in Wilson County. Prosecutors...
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Amnesty estimates China killed more people than all the other countries put together. The U.S. fell off the list of the top five countries to carry out the death penalty for the first time since 2006.
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Nationwide, the number and pace of executions are down, but states are looking at alternative, previous methods after restrictions have increased making the drugs for lethal injection hard to obtain.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Texas death penalty case of a Honduran national who is arguing that a federal appeals court wrongly...
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Public radio stations from across the state collaborated on this series looking at the death penalty in Texas – its history, how it has changed, whom it...
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Public radio stations from across the state collaborated on this series looking at the death penalty in Texas – its history, how it’s changed, whom it...