Texas’ 600th execution demands a reckoning on death penalty

Edward Busby’s execution underscores the arbitrariness, cost and moral failures of Texas’ death penalty system, Nan Tolson ...
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Woman Is Marrying a Convicted Double Murderer on Death Row 2 Weeks Before Execution: 'Nobody's Going to Understand It'

James Broadnax's execution is scheduled for April 30 in Texas This Morning/YouTube; Texas Department of Criminal Justice Tiana Krasniqi plans to marry James Broadnax, a death row inmate ...
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Federal appeals court temporarily halts execution of Texas death row inmate Edward Busby

Thursday’s execution was blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “pending further order” from the court.
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Texas inmate James Broadnax faces Thursday execution amid final appeal arguing he wasn’t the shooter

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the shooting death of two people.

Convicted “Texas Killing Fields” Murderer Awaits Execution On Oklahoma’s Death Row

Convicted serial rapist and murderer William Lewis Reece is back on Oklahoma soil, where he now awaits execution at the ...
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A 1978 Death Sentence Could Be Changed to Life on June 8

A Harris County district judge is expected to resentence Clarence Jordan, a man who has been on death row since 1978, next month.
The Texas Tribune

Texas’ highest criminal court overturns sentence of inmate who has been on death row for 47 years

Clarence Curtis Jordan’s attorney said the intellectually disabled man didn’t have a lawyer to work on his behalf for nearly four decades.