Subject: Huntsville

• Going Down in Downtown

  July 24, 2006

• Happy Birthday, Lethal Injection!

  December 7, 2007

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

  June 11, 2008

• Dallas Is Back on the Horse?

  August 8, 2008

• 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.

  August 6, 1998

• Small Fish

  Now let's look for the real villains in fake drugs

  December 4, 2003

• Good rockin' last night

  April 6, 1995

• BeloWatch

  August 17, 1995

• Dead man waiting

  February 15, 1996

• Buzz

  May 9, 1996

• Square peg

  July 18, 1996

• Blind-sided, again

  August 22, 1996

• Robbing 'em blind

  May 7, 1998

• Out Here

  May 28, 1998

• Draper's prison blues

  May 20, 1999

• Blood Vow

  May 27, 1999

• Closing death's door

  July 15, 1999

• Letters

  July 6, 2000

• Letters

  May 17, 2001

• Former Warden Reconsiders Executions

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

  November 8, 2007

• The Endurance Evangelist

  Your savior arrived wearing running shoes

  October 19, 2006

• Cell-bloc Voting

  A new effort tries to unlock former felons' votes

  December 18, 2003

• High on the Hog

  In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.

  August 24, 2006

• Zac Attack | Out in the Cold | Give It Up, Manny | Born Blue

  December 7, 2006

• Nip and Duck

  November 23, 2006

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  Plus: The Glasgow School, History Lesson

  October 6, 2005

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  March 31, 2005

• Best Fancy Restaurant

  Aurora

  October 14, 2004

• More Bushwhacking

  Plus: Attack and Counterattack; Who Ya Callin’ Geek?

  August 19, 2004

• Unbuttoned-Down Muse

  Plus: Girls Wanted; The Eyes Have It; We Win

  July 29, 2004

• Bellies of the Beast

  Food cuts have inmates and guards grumbling

  October 23, 2003

• Counsel for the Defense

  At 76, flamboyant criminal lawyer Racehorse Haynes keeps doing what he does best--winning

  October 2, 2003

• Ticket to Ride

  It's good news for bad people as low morale saps Dallas cops' will to work

  March 13, 2003

• Sisters in Crime

  Female authors find a lucrative trade in Texas lawlessness

  January 9, 2003

• Life Without Father

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

  September 12, 2002

• Odds and Ends

  The more things change, the more we try to keep up

  January 3, 2002

• Dead Wrong

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

  May 17, 2001

• Mean Green

  What do you get when you cross the Zapatistas with Dr. Dolittle? The Animal Liberation Front

  April 19, 2001

• Grave City

  Bobby Soxx, local punk-rock legend, died last week. Finally.

  November 2, 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.

  September 14, 2000

• Software and hard time

  Texas prisons take a byte out of crime with a computer rehab program

  July 6, 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.

  June 29, 2000

• Inside the soapbox

  Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

  May 25, 2000

• Unlucky strike

  Less than two years after Billie Bob Harrell Jr. took the $31 million lottery jackpot, he took his own life

  February 10, 2000

• Cruel and Unusual

  Mentally ill Texans used to go to hospitals. Now, increasing numbers of them go to prison instead.

  July 8, 1999

• Joe Bob Briggs

  Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  August 22, 1996

• Yeah, But What If Baseball Went To The European Football Table?

  I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we're all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August ... September ... maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top teams rewarded with international play and/or advancement and the worst facing relegation to the league below. I can see the initial extended excitement. Actually a reason to watch Pirates-Nationals a

  July 23, 2009

• How Do Dallas's Lobbyists Earn Their Dough?

  Zazzle​On October 28, the Dallas City Council will vote to renew its contract with the lobbyists who do the city's bidding in Austin and D.C. Right about now, the city spends $502,000 with the likes of CapitalEdge (which also lobbies on behalf of Arlington; Denton, Reno, Nevada; and Huntsville, Alabama), Alcalde & Fay (which works for Miami and Atlantic City, among many others), former Dallas assistant city attorney Randy Cain, HillCo Partners, Kwame Walker and San Antonio attorney Susan R

  October 6, 2009

• American Baseball, the European Way

  ​Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America's pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn't be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn't be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer standards--top teams earning international play (or advancement, in the case of minor league squads), the worst facing relegation to the league below--the woeful Pirates, Orioles and Nats would be pla

  October 8, 2009

• Georgia on His Mind: New York Times Profiles Carter's Tyrone Ellis, a National Hero Overseas

  Tyrone Ellis​Tyrone Ellis's pro basketball career in the U.S. didn't amount to much: 10 pre-season minutes played for the Minnesota Timberwolves in October 2006, during which he didn't score a single point. Also on his resume: a single-season stint, in 2001-'02, in the NBA's D-League, during which his Huntsville Flight went 26-30. In short, there was no reason whatsoever to believe the Dallas native and 1996 Carter High School graduate would ever become a pro baller. And yet, there he was Satu

  November 16, 2009