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Member of "Texas Seven" Executed
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect Newbury's execution.A member of the notorious "Texas Seven" gang of prison fugitives, whose 2000 prison break was the largest in state history, was...
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Classification of 17-Year-Olds Spurs Criminal Justice Debate
If you’re 17 years old and arrested for a crime, where you go depends mostly on what state you happen to live in.Although prosecutors and judges are usually able to pull teenagers out of the juvenile...
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Could Sedative Be Used in Future Texas Executions?
Even as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice revealed it's nearly out of its current lethal injection drug, pentobarbital, the agency has stockpiled the sedative midazolam, which could be part of a...
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San Antonio Gang Member Executed
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the execution.HUNTSVILLE — A hit man for the Mexican Mafia gang was executed Wednesday night for the 1998 strangling death of a San Antonio woman,...
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Lawmaker Says Death Penalty Could End if Drug Suppliers Revealed
-->If Texas has to tell the public who it's buying lethal execution drugs from, it might have to stop putting inmates to death, state Rep. John Smithee told a House committee on Wednesday."We're...
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Inmate Set for Execution Seeks Supreme Court Stay
-->Lawyers for a Texas inmate convicted of capital murder in the 1999 stabbing death of a prison guard have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his Tuesday execution.Robert Lynn Pruett is scheduled...
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House Backs Senate Bill Making Execution Drug Providers Secret
Legislation that would keep the names of execution drug providers secret is headed to the governor’s office after the Texas House gave final approval on Tuesday to a Senate measure.Senate Bill 1697,...
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Faces of Death Row: A New Tribune Data Tool
Editor's note: Correction appended. What's often called death row isn't really a row. There are far too many men and women awaiting execution in Texas to fit along one prison hallway. Instead, the...
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Get a Closer Look at Texas' Death Row
There are currently 261 inmates living on death row in Texas, the state with the most active execution chamber by far. Use this interactive to search through these men and women by the length of their...
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Preying on Prisoners: When Texas Guards Demand Sex
As a prison nurse, Domenic Hidalgo had access to prescription medication, a highly coveted commodity among the inmates at the Clements Unit in Texas, the state prison where Hidalgo worked.He tried to...
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When Home is a Post Office Box
-->Fibbing about weight and height is a longstanding tradition when it comes to Texas driver's license, but lately another bit of fiction has been creeping into that legal document: a driver's home...
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TDCJ Official: Supreme Court's Ruling Won't Impact Texas Executions
Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.A U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday that upheld the use of an execution drug used in Oklahoma will not change how inmates in Texas are put to...
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Rookie Prison Guard is Killed Escorting Violent Inmate
*Correction appendedA rookie Texas Department of Criminal Justice guard was beaten to death Wednesday at a northeast Texas prison as he was transporting an inmate with an extensive history of attempted...
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TDCJ Correctional Officer Beaten With "Pry Tool"
A Texas correctional officer killed while escorting a prisoner to his cell was beaten to death with a two-foot "pry bar" tool guards carry to unlock the small meal tray openings in cell doors, The...
View ArticleIn Texas Jails, Hanging Most Common Method of Inmate Suicide
-->*Correction appended. Texas county jails see 1 million bookings a year, and inmate deaths there are a rarity. But of the 501 inmate deaths that have occurred in county jails since 2009, nearly a...
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Chin Scratcher: Prison Beard Policy Will Cost Taxpayers $500,000
Thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, Texas prison inmates will be able to grow beards under a new policy expected to cost state taxpayers $500,000 a year in paperwork, beard nets and barber...
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Inmate Beard Policy Will Not Cost Taxpayers Extra
Taxpayers will not have to bear the costs of a new beard policy for inmates after all.Last week, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said it was discarding its "clean-shaven" grooming rule for...
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Interim Committee to Take a Closer Look at Jail Safety
In the wake of the hanging death of Sandra Bland and the deaths of other Texas jail inmates, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and state Sen. John Whitmire on Tuesday announced the creation of an interim jail...
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Jailhouse Snitch Claims Secret Deal in Death Case
Nearly six years before Navarro County prosecutor John Jackson used a jailhouse snitch to help send Cameron Todd Willingham to his death, Jackson made similar use of an inmate informant in a different...
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Scrutiny Follows Bland, Deputy Deaths
In the coming days, the deaths of Sandra Bland and Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth will continue to jolt statewide conversations about how the Texas criminal justice system deals with mental health...
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