Author Archives: Michael Graczyk

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Dallas man was executed Tuesday for the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend while he already was on parole for killing his estranged wife. This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A man on death row for the notorious slaying nearly 20 years ago of a Black man chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged along a bumpy rural East Texas road will get his claim of innocence and poor legal representation reviewed by an appeals court. The 5th U.S. […]

This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Lisa Ann Coleman. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, Coleman is set for execution for the 9-year-old Davontae Williams’ starvation death 10 years ago. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice) HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman convicted of the starvation and torture […]

(Updated 3/20/2014) HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former San Antonio rap musician has been executed for a knife attack and robbery that left a recording studio owner dead. Ray Jasper was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital Wednesday for the November 1998 stabbing death of 33-year-old David Alejandro. Jasper had acknowledged he slit Alejandro’s […]

BAY CITY, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a Texas man who was kept in prison for more than three decades after his murder conviction was overturned have asked a court to free him so he can get on with his life, saying he’s suffered enough from the mishandling of his case and that key trial […]

HOUSTON (AP) — A 31-year-old man was charged Saturday in connection with the discovery of four malnourished men being held against their will in a dungeon-like Houston home. Walter Renard Jones faces two counts of injury to the elderly. He is being held without bond in the Harris County Jail and set to appear in […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) —A Houston man condemned for the slaying of a police officer shot while trying to handcuff him during a car theft arrest 14 years ago was put to death Wednesday evening. Jeffrey Demond Williams, 37, received lethal injection just over an hour after his last-day appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed. […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a fellow drug dealer while robbing him outside of a Waco convenience store 10 years ago was executed Tuesday evening. In the seconds before being injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital, Carroll Joe Parr told his victim’s wife she should talk to […]

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A Houston man who admitted shooting his daughter outside a Texas courthouse was convicted Tuesday of capital murder for the death of a 79-year-old bystander. Bartholomew Granger, 42, testified in his own defense that he didn’t shoot Minnie Ray Sebolt last March when he opened fire on his daughter outside the […]