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Capital Punishment

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Verna Deann McClain Kills Woman To Steal Her Three-Day-Old Baby (UPDATED)

    A nurse killed a woman outside a pediatrician's office and took off with the victim's three-day-old baby, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office says. Verna Deann McClain, 30, has been charged with capital murder. A deputy searching fan apartment complex saw a car that matched the description of wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    ESPN's Craig James to Run for U.S. Senate In Texas

    The next senator from Texas?​Great news if you're a fan of inept political campaigns, or if you just want less awful announcing on your TV. Craig James, ESPN college football analyst who was personally involved in two ugly college football scndals of varying degrees, is running to replace Kay ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Phillip Little: Four Arrested in Domino's Driver's Murder

    Timothy Robinson and three others face capital murder charges.​Four people -- including a 15-year-old girl -- have been arrested for the November 2 murder of Domino's Pizza driver Phillip Little, Houston police said today. Little was shot in a robbery attempt near the intersection of Martin L ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2011

    Throne of Death

    Timothy Robinson and three others face capital murder charges.​Four people -- including a 15-year-old girl -- have been arrested for the November 2 murder of Domino's Pizza driver Phillip Little, Houston police said today. Little was shot in a robbery attempt near the intersection of Martin L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Clarence Brandley: Demanded, Denied Compensation for Decade on Death Row

    Photo by Mandy OaklanderClarence Brandley remains uncompensated.​It's hard to put a price on ten years wrongfully spent in prison, but Texas won't even try. Clarence Brandley, once the janitor at Conroe High School, spent a decade on Death Row after being wrongfully convicted of the 1980 rap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Sandrell Crosby, 1 Year Old, Bayou Body Count No. 47

    HPDChristopher Washington: Faces capital murder charges​A west Houston man has been charged with beating his baby daughter to death, police say. Christopher Washington, 35, is charged with capital murder in the death of Sandrell Crosby, 1, about 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon in the 2900 block of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Death Penalty: Your Newest App

    Yeah, there's an app for that​Have your Angry Birds gone postal? You might need the newest app, from the Death Penalty Information Center. Today's on-the-go death-penalty activist is now only a touch away from "our Fact Sheet on the Death Penalty, our Execution Database, and the most recent d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Life in Prison With No Parole for Man Who Impregnated His 11-Year-Old Stepdaughter

    Home for the rest of this sex offender's life​A sentence has come down in the case of a Brazoria County man who impregnated his 11-year-old stepdaughter, and it's a steep one: Life in prison with no chance of parole. KTRK, which broke the story and has been following it, says a judge handed d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Death Penalty Hearing: Judge Kevin Fine Gets Slapped Down By Appeals Court

    Judge Kevin Fine: Rejected​The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has permanently shut down district judge Kevin Fine's quixotic and headline-grabbing effort to examine the constitutionality of how Texas applies the death penalty. In an order issued this morning, the CCA says Fine had no busines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Jonathan Paul Foster, 12, Bayou Body Count No. 299

    Photo courtesy HPDMona Yvette Nelson: Charged with capital murder​A family friend has been charged with capital murder in the horrible Christmas death of a 12-year-old boy. The body of Jonathan Paul Foster was found charred almost beyond recognition and abandoned in a northside ditch. He had ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Texas High Court Halts Hearing On Death Penalty

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, acting on its own motion, has ordered a halt in the hearings District Judge Kevin Fine is conducting into the constitutionality of the death penalty as it is applied here. District Attorney Pat Lykos' office made the announcement, having been informed of the mov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Houston Texans -- The Green Mile, 5 Winners and 5 Losers

    Texans fans: Enjoy it today, resume griping tomorrow​The Texans beat the Chiefs on Sunday afternoon 35-31 to move to 4-2 for the first time in the history of the franchise, and I for one am going to enjoy it. Seriously, try to stop me. You can try and bring me down with your texts and tweets and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    The Stern-Gaiser Affair: HPD Arrests Alleged Shooter

    Photo courtesy HCSOMichelle Gaiser, alleged criminal mastermind​A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with events surrounding the alleged murder-for-hire plot of Yvonne Stern, the Bellaire trial lawyer's wife who survived three recent attempted hits.Houston police say that 26-year-old Da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    USC Trojans: They're Different From 1980s SMU How, Exactly?

    Snoop & Pete: BFFs​The Southern Methodist University football team was hit with NCAA sanctions on February 26, 1987 because of a slush-fund created to pay players. Seeing as how the Mustangs were a repeat offender -- they were already on probation for recruiting violations -- the NCAA le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Blaine Milam: Strong Candidate For Tool Of The Decade On Trial In Conroe For East Texas Exorcist Baby Murder

    The defendants, from a since-removed Facebook page​Apparently gorgeous 13-month-old toddler Amora Carson was not as angelic as she looked. At least that was what 18-year-old slimebuckets Jessica Carson and Blaine Milam told police in Rusk County in East Texas. According to them, Amora had demons i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Samuel Bustamante Hunted Aliens; Should Texas Be Killing Him In Light Of Stephen Hawking's Warning?

    Stephen Hawking's voicebox makes us wonder if this execution should go through.​"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America," astrophysicist and wheelchair-enthusiast Stephen Hawking opines in a new documentary to be shown on the ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2010

    True Confessions?

    Seventeen years ago, Charles Raby said he killed an old lady. Now he's not so sure.

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Oh, He's In Trouble Now: Death-Row Inmate Indicted For Cell-Phone Smuggling

    You might think you'd have enough troubles, sitting on Death Row waiting to be executed. Just wait until they indict you for smuggling in a cell phone.Where's the Innocence Project now, eh?You can just imagine the torture going through Richard Lee Tabler's mind as he ponders his fate on Death Ro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2009

    Kindness and Courage on Death Row

    Thomas Cahill tells Dominique Green’s story

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    The Judicial Conduct Commission Actually Moves Against "Killer Keller"

    Photo courtesy Court of Criminal AppealsNo one gave State Rep. Lon Burnam much of a chance with his call to impeach Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller -- they still don't -- but he may have spurred some action.In what is either the biggest coincidence of all time or, well, the biggest coi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2009

    At the Death House Door

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    The Wait Goes On For Death-Row Inmate In DNA Case

    The wait continues for Charles Raby, the Houston man sentenced to lethal injection for brutally murdering a 72-year-old grandmother in 1994.Raby and his lawyer Sarah Frazier have been fighting for years to introduce new DNA testing to the case. The results, which Frazier says exonerate Raby, finally ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Ron White

    The Blue Collar Comedy Tour star is one proud Texan

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    Can Edouard Save Jose Medellin?

    The Blue Collar Comedy Tour star is one proud Texan

  • News

    January 26, 2006

    Porn to Be Wild

    Just what was on the probation director's computer?

  • Culture

    October 21, 2004

    A Side of Death

    The Houston Center for Photography explores mortality through food

  • Culture

    October 14, 2004

    Crime: Nothing

    Six people freed from death row tell tales of injustice in The Exonerated

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Visitors' Guide

    Get Bowled over by the best of the real Bayou City

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Double Standards?

    Plus: Defining Moment, Egg on the Face, Get Off Death Row!

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    The Devil You Say

    Was Jeffery Prible the cold-blooded murderer of an entire family? Or the gullible target of an opportunistic jailhouse informant?

  • Best of Houston

    September 26, 2002

    Best Court Ruling

    U.S. District Judge David Hittner

  • News

    July 4, 2002

    Innocence Lost

    The D.A.'s policy cuts into an inmate advocacy program

  • Music

    June 6, 2002

    Snoop Dogg

    Saturday, June 8

  • Calendar

    June 6, 2002

    Return of the Living Dead

    Joseph Paul Jernigan's journey from death row inmate to 3-D computer model

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    Very Appealing

    Nichols's Houston attorney turns upbeat about the FBI's newest foibles

  • News

    April 5, 2001

    Letters

    Big on Little Joe, A Capital Idea, Truck Lines

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    She Doth Protest Too Much?

    A veteran activist says police targeted her for jail

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Job Insecurity

    For 13 hours, guard Jeanette Bledsoe wondered if she would see one more murder inside prison walls -- her own. Now she wants to make sure TDCJ protects those who protect us from society's rejects.

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Hero

    Texas Ranger Sergeant Drew Carter

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Justice on the Block

    Is the D.A.'s office for sale to the highest bidder?

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Letters

    Is the D.A.'s office for sale to the highest bidder?

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Killer On The Loose

    Was Walter Waldhauser/ Michael Davis tipped about his latest arrest warrants?

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Heartburn Can Be Murder

    A body may soon be unburied in the bizarre Basso case

  • News

    April 6, 1995

    Down on Peckerwood Hill

    It's the last stop for some Texas prison inmates

  • Music

    February 2, 1995

    Live Shots

    It's the last stop for some Texas prison inmates

  • News

    August 4, 1994

    Hotze In the Media Fun House

    Rest easy: he doesn't want the state to kill gays

  • News

    March 24, 1994

    Crime & Punishment

    Ten years ago, Anthony Ray Westley entered a bait shop to commit a crime. Was it a crime worth dying for?

  • News

    February 17, 1994

    The Last Word

    Judge Bill "Roy Bean" Harmon grandstands a murder trial -- again

  • News

    February 10, 1994

    Defending the Indefensible

    Do court-appointed attorneys serve their clients or the courts?

  • News

    December 9, 1993

    Following the Rules

    On the eve of her birthday and another reprieve, condemned murderer Karla Faye Tucker talks to the Press from death row

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