A history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 - George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 - Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 -...
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Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee...
View ArticleA history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 - George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 - Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 -...
View ArticleA history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee...
View ArticleGeorge Stinney, Black Teen Executed In 1944, May Get New Trial
AP An undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History shows 14-year-old George Stinney Jr., the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina. Sixty-five years later,...
View ArticleJohn McCluskey Murder Trial Hears Closing Arguments
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Escaped prisoner John McCluskey killed a retired Oklahoma couple in cold blood while he was on the run and should be convicted of capital murder for his...
View ArticleJoseph Paul Franklin, White Supremacist Killer Who Shot Larry Flynt, To Be...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Options for a white supremacist serial killer set to die in Missouri were running out as the state moved toward its first execution in nearly three years. Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, is...
View ArticleMichael Yowell Executed For Killing Parents In Texas
AP This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Michael John Yowell. Yowell, 43, is set to be executed Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, for the 1998 slayings of John and Carol...
View ArticleRonald Phillips, Death Row Inmate, Decides To Donate Organs
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A convicted child killer scheduled for execution this week requested Monday that his organs be donated to help his ailing mother and sister. Death row inmate...
View ArticleArturo Diaz Executed In Texas For Murder Of Michael Nichols
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A South Texas man was put to death Thursday for a slaying 14 years ago in which the victim was bound with shoelaces and strips of bedding, stabbed 94 times and robbed of $50. The...
View ArticleA history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 - George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 - Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 -...
View ArticleTexas prepares to execute 500th inmate
HUNTSVILLE, Texas Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison. "I remember thinking:...
View ArticleJoseph Paul Franklin, White Supremacist Killer Who Also Shot, Paralyzed...
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state's...
View ArticleJoseph Paul Franklin, White Supremacist Killer Who Shot Larry Flynt, To Be...
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A federal appeals court in Missouri has upheld the execution of white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, restoring the state's plans to kill Franklin just hours...
View ArticleA history of capital punishment in Texas
Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee Nathan...
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