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Capital Punishment

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Citing Carlos DeLuna, Protesters Call on Dallas DA Craig Watkins to Abandon the Death Penalty

    Rick Halperin, head of SMU's human rights program, has been saying for years what became nationally recognized this week: "Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man," to borrow a headline from the Atlantic. Halperin has spent his career doing the academic equivalent of banging his head against ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Before George Rivas's Execution, His Attorney Talks About the "Poster Boy for Death Penalty"

    It's been 11 years since George Rivas lead the Texas Seven in their escape from prison and shooting of a police officer, and the hour of his death is fast-approaching. At around 6 p.m, the State of Texas will end his life by lethal injection. Rivas confessed that he was the ringleader of the group ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Exoneree: Guantanamo Bay Is "Peanuts Compared to What's Going On In" Texas

    Via.Anthony Graves, exonerated from death row in 2010​As "the death chaplain" at Huntsville prison, Reverend Carroll Pickett has counseled 95 prisoners, one at a time, on the day the state has scheduled to end their life. Death by lethal injection, the chaplain found, is not a quiet exit. It's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Dallas County Judge Who Ruled Death Penalty Unconstitutional Is Forced To Recuse Herself

    Teresa Hawthorne, the Dallas County judge who ruled that the state's death penalty statute was unconstitutional, must recuse herself from a capital murder case, a judge ruled today. Hawthorne was presiding over the capital murder trial of Roderick Harris, who's accused of killing brothers Alfredo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    In Dallas and Across Texas, More and More It's Life Over the Death Penalty

    Via....not seeing a whole lot of action.​In the death penalty debate, Texas has a long-standing reputation for abiding by one guiding principal: an eye for an eye. But the state has increasingly chosen to holster its lethal-injection needles in recent years, with death-penalty sentences decrea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    "That Could Have Been Me:" An Evening With Five Innocent Men Nearly Executed

    Photo by Leslie MinoraFive innocent men who were nearly put to death for others' crimes.​Imagine spending five years in a Nebraska prison for having brutally murdered a teenage honor student but knowing that the real killer is at large. Or rolling over in the middle of the night to put your ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Report: Dallas County's DA Cited as One Reason for Decline in Texas's Use of Death Penalty

    ​The Associated Press this morning directs our attention to this year-in-review: The Death Penalty in 2010, released at midnight by the D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center. Says the report, Texas is still executing more inmates than any other state -- 17 in 2010, the lowest in almost a dec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    In Heated DA's Debate, Craig Watkins Accuses Danny Clancy of Lacking Brain and Backbone

    Photos by Sam MertenCraig Watkins​Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and Republican challenger Danny Clancy stared each other down and traded barbs this afternoon at the Belo Mansion during their first debate, and tensions peaked when Watkins was asked what three issues the two cand ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2010

    The State of Texas Cannot Execute The Mentally Retarded, But That May Not Prevent A Dallas Cop Killer From Being Put To Death.

    Photos by Sam MertenCraig Watkins​Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and Republican challenger Danny Clancy stared each other down and traded barbs this afternoon at the Belo Mansion during their first debate, and tensions peaked when Watkins was asked what three issues the two cand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Craig Watkins Won't Always Talk to the Media. But He'll Talk About the Media.

    Craig Watkins speaking at SMU on Wednesday​Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins ...This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wedne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2008

    The Man Called Buffalo, "The Dean of Death Row," Gets Yet Another Reprieve

    Craig Watkins speaking at SMU on Wednesday​Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins ...This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wedne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2008

    Hours Before Texas Gets Back in the Execution Business, a Small Protest

    Craig Watkins speaking at SMU on Wednesday​Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins ...This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wedne ... More >>

  • News

    May 29, 2008

    Notorious 'Texas Seven' Try to Save One of Their Own By Insulting Him

    Craig Watkins speaking at SMU on Wednesday​Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins ...This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wedne ... More >>

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Divide and Conquer|Disgusting Bleeding Hearts

    Craig Watkins speaking at SMU on Wednesday​Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins ...This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wedne ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Sharon Keller is Texas' Judge Dread

    When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    Craig Watkins on Death Penalty: No, But With a Yessy Aftertaste

    When Sharon Keller turned off the clock on a Death Row inmate's last-gasp appeal, she became the most vilified judge in Texas

  • News

    November 8, 2007

    Former Warden Reconsiders Executions

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    Like Zombies, SMU football Plays on Without a Pulse

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2007

    SMU Can't Cheer Up or Pony Up

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2007

    Countdown to a Killing

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2007

    Because God Loves a Good Hangin'?

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2007

    Buffalo Chambers Spared, This Time by the U.S. Supreme Court

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2006

    Spared

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2006

    Wamsley: Guilty

    Jim Willett oversaw 89 executions. Now, amidst dozens of DNA exonerations, he wonders whether it was right.

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Death for a Killer

    Plus: Off the List, Maybe

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Life After Death

    Andre Lewis was eight hours from being executed, until the courts realized they had made a big mistake

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    The Icebox Revisited

    Houston had one of its most shocking race murders 45 years ago. But exactly whose tragedy was it?

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Life Without Father

    Inmates on Texas' Death Row leave behind immeasurable pain and countless victims--including their own families

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    Dead Wrong

    How consummate con artist Henry Lee Lucas resurrected the dead and went looking for a sucker. He almost found one.

  • Music

    November 9, 2000

    Death Row Records

    Steve Earle doesn't really care about Napster as long as our country still kills people

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Death and Dignity, I Am Far Superior, Slam Bam

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    Killer Smile

    Tommy Lynn Sells claims to have murdered dozens, and Texas Rangers fear he's telling the truth

  • News

    September 14, 2000

    Death Angel

    For 15 years, the Rev. Carroll Pickett granted the last wishes of men about to die in Texas' execution chamber. For the first time, he tells his story.

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    Killing machine

    It is 6:07 p.m. John Albert Burks salutes the Oakland Raiders and says goodbye to his friends. Minutes later, he is a dead man. This year's 21st execution.

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    The other victim

    In the media frenzy spurred by a serial killer, one small-town victim was forgotten, but not by her neighbors

  • Film

    March 9, 2000

    Death becomes him

    Execution specialist goes Nazi-partying in Errol Morris' disturbing new documentary

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Questions of innocence

    Odell Barnes is just one of many inmates with questionable convictions facing the death penalty

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Presumed guilty

    Odell Barnes awaits execution on March 1 -- despite new evidence that he didn't commit the crime

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Innocence Lost

    Railroaded onto death row, Kerry Max Cook endures rapes, beatings, and suicide attempts while waiting for justice

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Closing death's door

    Will proposed media rules stifle coverage of convicts facing execution?

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Innocence lost

    Prosecutors lied and cheated to put Kerry Max Cook on death row for 16 years. He's out of prison now, but still not quite free.

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    Cheating death

    A notorious murder-for-hire ex-con may have reached the end of his road in Dallas

  • News

    August 6, 1998

    Defending Darlie

    Wealthy Waco businessman Brian Pardo spends his time and money helping death-row inmates he believes are innocent. His efforts on behalf of Darlie Routier have raised suspicions about her husband--and about Pardo's motives.

  • News

    July 23, 1998

    Letters

    Wealthy Waco businessman Brian Pardo spends his time and money helping death-row inmates he believes are innocent. His efforts on behalf of Darlie Routier have raised suspicions about her husband--and about Pardo's motives.

  • News

    July 9, 1998

    Deathtrap

    While Erica Sheppard sits on death row, penniless and convicted of a gruesome murder, her cadre of elite Dallas lawyers tries to prove that the justice system has gone fatally awry

  • News

    February 15, 1996

    Dead man waiting

    After a decade on death row, Andre Lewis grasps at straws Andre Lewis is a dead man waiting.

  • Music

    January 25, 1996

    Dead man rapping

    "The D.O.C." returns with a new record and a score to settle

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    Lambs to the slaughter

    Laws to speed executions will make it harder to save Death Row's innocent

  • Film

    March 2, 1995

    An ass and a banjo

    If you haven't seen Just Cause, don't read this article

  • News

    January 26, 1995

    Death Row Granny

    Bettie Beets killed two husbands. Now she's likely to become the first woman the state of Texas has ever executed

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