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- APRIL 11, 2006MexicoDEATH PENALTY
MEXICO. MEXICO TO ASK TEXAS TO COMMUTE MEXICAN PRISONER'S DEATH SENTENCE
the president of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission asked Texas officials to commute a death sentence to life in prison for Angel Maturino Resendiz, a Mexican prisoner convicted of raping and killing a Houston doctor.
APRIL 11, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTYTEXAS. INMATE ORDERED TO TAKE MEDS SO HE CAN BE EXECUTED
a judge who halted an execution because the inmate was mentally ill has agreed to force the man to take anti-psychotic medication so he can be put to death.
- APRIL 6, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
a Bexar County jury sentenced Ronnie Joe Neal to death after rejecting...
a Bexar County jury sentenced Ronnie Joe Neal to death after rejecting his claim that he suffers mental retardation. The same jury convicted Neal, 35, of capital murder last month.
APRIL 2, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTYTEXAS, 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 PENALTYTEXAS. 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, 2006FranceDEATH PENALTY
FRANCE. ACTRESS BARDOT URGES BUSH TO PREVENT EXECUTION OF PRISONER ON TEXAS DEATH ROW
French film legend Brigitte Bardot wrote to US President George W. Bush urging him to prevent the execution of a prisoner on death row in Texas.
MARCH 15, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTYTEXAS, 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.