Deat Penalty in Texas

Death Penalty in Texas

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Why don't people in Texas talk about the death penalty
Judge Keller tries again to clear name
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- Sharon Keller - an ethic s case
  - Office of last chance
  - Keller Immune to Justice
  - Texas' top criminal judge's job on the line for death penalty case
  - Trial to consider Keller's role in after-hours death row appeal
  - A judge who should hope for mercy
  - State panel opens case over last-minute appeal
  - Judge charged with blocking execution appeal
  - Fire Keller
  - Judge's ethics case may hinge on phone calls
  - A trial would expose Keller's heartless missteps to a fascinated world.
  - She was waitin' on the repair guy
  - A faulty ethical compass makes Judge Sharon Keller unfit for the bench.
  - Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge's actions called into question
  - Mixed Opinions on a Judge Accused of Misconduct
  - Covering for Keller:
  - Sharon Keller has till Tuesday, March 24 to Respond to Charges of Misconduct
  - Keller denies charges she closed court to death row appeal
  - Lawyers' late filings can be deadly for inmates
  - Let’s give Judge Keller a free lawyer
  - Controversial execution judge to update finance data
  - Killer Keller Digs Herself Deeper
  - Hearing on Keller Impeachment set for April 27th
  - Keller Files 7 Six phone calls tell story of execution day
  - keller file 6 why the last-minute appeal
  - The Judgment of Sharon Keller
  - Keller to attack credibility of defense lawyers at her trial
  - Sharon Keller hearing justified
  - Keller asks for higher standard of evidence at upcoming hearing
  - Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge deserves sanction
  - A Texas Judge on Trial Closed to a Death-Row Appeal
  - Texas judge ended day as death row appeal waited
  - Keller drags Texas through the mud
  - Keller trial wraps up with harsh criticism
  - Judge defiant as trial over death-row appeal ends
  - Trial of Texas judge over death-row appeal ends
  - Sharon Keller deserves censure or reprimand
  - Review chides US judge who refused death row appeal
- Gov. Perry
  - Gov. Perry Awards $880,000 in Forensic Science Improvement Grants
  - Perry's 200th Execution Sparks Worldwide Protest
- Innocent Children of Inmates
- Inquiry hears horror tales of injustice
- Death penalty is just one part of a life wasted
- Texas should honor treaties
- Texas needs to start a dialogue on the death penalty
- Looming Texas Execution Gets Spotlight
- time to end....
- Texas defying Hague's order
- The Unnecessary Execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin
- reactions to Medellin's execution
- US should end its pick and choose attitude towards international law
- Chi's execution - reactions
- Death and Texas
- Eyewitness to an execution; the Texas 7 case
- Willingham's case will be reviewed
- Saving Jeff Wood
- Texas death penalty put on trial
- Judge-DA sex tale gets weirder
  - Harris County will review plan for public defenders office
- Attorney general defends actions in investigation of affair between judge, DA
- the evolution of a death penalty opponent
- HPD's crime lab asks for $1.25 million
- Harris County sheriff, challenger clash over inmate deaths
- 12 Texas death row inmates lose at Supreme Court
- Executions Near for 12 on Texas Death Row
- How Many Innocent People Has Harris County Sent to Prison?
- 18 Dallas County cases overturned by DNA relied on heavily eyewitness testimony
- Prison officials expand contraband search
- Texas senator says prisons need to be tougher on contraband
- Low pay may make prison guards ripe for smugglers
- Texas to execute ten men in one month
- Personal story sheds light on death penalty failings
- Shameful record of executions
- Prison shakedown leads to more than cell phones
- Dallas County district attorney reconciles opposition to death penalty with the law
- Life sentence preferable
- 10 Executions in 30 Days: Is there no halt to the Texas Killing Machine ?
- first Thanksgiving home
- Texas prison officials plan to test cell-phone jammers
- Cardinal leads huge protest
- Bill to Abolish the Death Penalty Filed in Texas Legislature
- are we surprised ????? Indictments against Cheney, Gonzales dismissed
- Death row cell phone scandal prompts big budget request
- Eight-month investigation yields no charges against Rosenthal
- Texas still leads in executions, but the numbers are down here and across the nation
- Large counties should stop electing judges
- Executions Maintain Steady Clip
- Huntsville prison warden reassigned pending investigation
- Is Texas Changing Its Mind About the Death Penalty?
- Craig Watkins is the 2008 Texan of the Year
- Death penalty moratorium needed
- death row inmate gets a new trial
- Texas death row inmate plucks out eye, eats it
- Death row inmate seeks to expedite execution
  - 6 Texas prisoners set to die in January
- The Science of Murder
- Death House Warden Suspended For Argument After Execution
- Busy day at capitol and courts on innocence
- Budget Choices: TDCJ needs more money or fewer prisoners
- Punish those who wrongfully convict
- A bizarre way to judge our judges
  - Innocence lost: Efforts to stop wrongful convictions supported
- A matter of life, death and justice
- Texas Lawmaker Wants An End To 'Law Of Parties'
- Lawmaker questions cost of new death room
- why death penalty is wrong
- Codifying justice
- Texas on pace to execute far more in 2009
- Chaplain Banned from Cameron County Jail for Criticizing Injustice
- Illicit goods keep flowing into prisons
- Bill would up penalty on prosecutors who suppress evidence
- Change way accomplices are punished
- Jeff Wood Loses Appeal at 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
- Texas executes accomplices
- Texas Progress, pitfalls in Legislature
- Let s push for moratorium on death penalty in Texas
- Legal prison phones start ringing
- Texas kills innocent people
- Judges look to shake up DNA appeals
- Killer s case fuels debate on Texas insanity defense law
- Jurors regret convicting innocent man
- I put away an innocent man
- Conditions in the Texan prisons
- Texas Death Row lawyers get paid while messing up
- Indefensible defenders
- Critics say Texas parole board pick lacks experience in criminal justice
- Texas House Passes Kenneth Foster Jr Act HB 2267, the Law of Parties Bill
- Death Row phone number still working
- Veto threat dooms change in death penalty law
- Fratta sent back to death row
- Texas 200 exécutions sous Rick Perry
- Des handicapés mentaux dans les couloirs de la mort
- Lotsa blood on those manicured hands
- How Austin dealt with our priority list
- 2 suspects freed in Texas yogurt shop murder case
- A chaplain s take on capital punishment
Rick Perry winner over Bush in the number of executions
- Texas governor nearing his 200th execution
- houston protest of the 200th execution
- Texas increasingly out of step on death penalty
- Is Rick Perry Responsible for Texas’ Wild Increase in Executions?
- Governor Rick Perry defends execution of Corsicana man some experts say was innocent
- Rick Perry thinks the death penalty is working just fine
- Texas Gov. Could Face Criminal Charges for Interfering with Death Penalty Review
Nanon Williams released
escape in Polunsky Unit
Lawyers ready to tackle 200 requests for DNA review
Death row inmate gets court OK to drop appeals
New Moratorium Hopes
Questions About an Execution
Le Texas accusé d'avoir exécuté un innocent
New prisons lockdown under way
Death sentences have dropped sharply after life without parole became possible
Some West Texans Join the Fight Against the Death Penalty
Judge grants motion declaring death penalty unconstitutional
East Texan honors mother by fighting the death penalty
Judge Sharon Keller reprimanded
Watkins: just another politician
finally justice
Claude Jones, maybe another innocent man executed
Will Europe Thwart Texas Executions?
Could Texas Fire Up Old Sparky?
Senate votes to make more child killers subject to death penalty