HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A North Texas man convicted in the fatal shooting of a teenager during a carjacking outside a nightclub 12 years ago has been executed. Forty-year-old Ronnie Threadgill received lethal injection Tuesday evening in Huntsville less than two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-day appeal. Threadgill expressed love to […]
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Texas Executes Man who Lit Ex-girlfriend on Fire
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal. Carl Blue, 48, was condemned to die for attacking Carmen Richards-Sanders at her apartment in Bryan, about 100 miles […]
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Black Woman to be Executed in Texas Today after 6 P.M CST
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Defense lawyers have made a late request to halt the execution of a Texas woman set to become the first female put to death in the U.S. in three years. The request was sent to a Dallas County judge Tuesday just hours before Kimberly McCarthy’s scheduled execution. University of Texas law […]
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Texas Black Woman’s Execution Halted; DA Won’t Appeal
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010 won a reprieve Tuesday, mere hours before she was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber. State District Judge Larry Mitchell, in Dallas, rescheduled Kimberly McCarthy’s punishment for April 3 so lawyers for the former nursing home […]
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White Supremacist Executed for Texas Dragging Death of Black Man
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer has been executed for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas. The 49-year-old Byrd of Jasper was chained to the back of a pickup truck 13 years ago and pulled whip-like to his death along a […]
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NAACP seeks Review of Texas Schools
HOUSTON (AP) — Two civil rights organizations are seeking a federal review of public school education in Texas, accusing state school administrators of violating federal civil rights laws after curriculum changes approved earlier this year by the Texas Board of Education. The request to the U.S. Department of Education made by the Texas NAACP and […]
