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- MAY 14, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
House passed a bill to ban the execution of juvenile...
House passed a bill to ban the execution of juvenile offenders
- MAY 14, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
The House voted down a bill that would have allowed...
The House voted down a bill that would have allowed the sentencing option of life without parole
- MAY 13, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, Jim Willett,...
In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, Jim Willett, who presided over 89 executions as the warden on Texas' death row, stated: Has an innocent man ever been executed? Probably
- APRIL 25, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
David Lee Goff, 32, was executed by injection
David Lee Goff, 32, was executed by injection
- APRIL 19, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved...
The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved two measures that could halt executions for 2 years in the nation's most active death penalty state
- APRIL 12, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee endorsed a...
Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee endorsed a resolution that would allow voters to decide whether to impose a two-year moratorium on executions while the state's death penalty is studied
- APRIL 5, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A federal appeals court threw out Texas death row inmate...
A federal appeals court threw out Texas death row inmate David Allen Gardner's sentence, ruling his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was violated by a psychiatrist's testimony
- APRIL 5, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
April 5, 2001 Gov
April 5, 2001 Gov
- APRIL 3, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Convicted murderer Jason Massey apologized profusely,...
Convicted murderer Jason Massey apologized profusely, revealed where he disposed the missing body parts of one of his victims and then prayerfully went to his death for the murders of Christina Benjamin, 13, and her stepbrother, James King, 14 on July 27,
- MARCH 30, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A jury sentenced to death Daniel Acker, 29, after finding...
A jury sentenced to death Daniel Acker, 29, after finding him guilty of capital murder in the strangulation death of his girlfriend, 32-year-old Marquetta George, last March
- MARCH 30, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Corey James Jennings, 25, convicted of gunning down...
Corey James Jennings, 25, convicted of gunning down Quy Quang Lam, 21, a neighborhood store clerk was sentenced to death by lethal injection
- MARCH 27, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
One day before he was scheduled to die, Michael Moore...
One day before he was scheduled to die, Michael Moore received a reprieve from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals