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- APRIL 2, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. MURDER RATE INCREASES IN STATE WITH HIGHEST EXECUTION RATE
the number of homicides in Houston, Texas, rose nearly 25 % during the first 3 months of 2006, compared with the same period last year, despite a multimillion-dollar police effort in the city's most crime-ridden areas, the Houston Chronicle reported.
- MARCH 29, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS. KEVIN KINCY EXECUTED IN TEXAS
Kevin Kincy, a former pizza delivery man with a long criminal record, was executed for the robbery and slaying of a Houston-area man 13 years ago.
- MARCH 22, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS. INMATE EXECUTED FOR DEATH OF TODDLER
Robert Salazar Jr., a man convicted of beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter to death because she was crying, was executed by lethal injection.
- MARCH 15, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. HUGHES PUT TO DEATH IN FIFTH 2006 TEXAS EXECUTION
Tommie Hughes was put to death by lethal injection for the 1997 robbery and murder of a Dallas woman in a movie theater parking lot. Hughes, 32, was condemned for killing Foulke Erinkitola, 25, after he and a cousin robbed Erinkitola and her friend, Roxan
- MARCH 8, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
Joe Michael Luna, 26, who asked jurors to sentence him to death, has today been sentenced to death.
Joe Michael Luna, 26, who asked jurors to sentence him to death, has today been sentenced to death.
- MARCH 3, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
a 3-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for Anthony Graves.
a 3-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for Anthony Graves.
- MARCH 2, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
a jury agreed this morning that Max Alexander Soffar, 50, should return to death row for killing Arden Alane Felsher, 17, during an attack that also left 2 other young people dead and another teenager severely wounded....
a jury agreed this morning that Max Alexander Soffar, 50, should return to death row for killing Arden Alane Felsher, 17, during an attack that also left 2 other young people dead and another teenager severely wounded.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
Stephen Barbee, 38, was sentenced to death
Stephen Barbee, 38, was sentenced to death this afternoon for the Feb. 19, 2005 killing of Lisa Underwood and her 7-year-old son, Jayden.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. TEXAS CARRIES OUT ITS FOURTH EXECUTION OF THE YEAR
Convicted killer Clyde Smith was executed for fatally shooting a Houston cabdriver during a robbery in 1992.
- FEBRUARY 8, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. MAN EXECUTED FOR ABDUCTING, KILLING WOMAN
Robert Neville, a man who abducted a young woman while she rode her bicycle to work, then shot and killed her in a field near Dallas, was executed by lethal injection
- FEBRUARY 7, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
in San Antonio, before 187th District Judge Raymond Angelini...
in San Antonio, before 187th District Judge Raymond Angelini, a jury choose the death sentence for Christopher Young.
- JANUARY 31, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
TEXAS, USA. JAIME ELIZALDE EXECUTED FOR 1994 DOUBLE MURDER
Jaime Elizalde Jr., was put to death by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of two men outside a Houston cantina. Elizalde, 34, was condemned for shooting Juan Saenz Guajardo, 29, and Marcos Sanchez Vasquez, 33, on November 5, 1994.