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Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [1] [2] Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence ...
Texas' highest criminal court on April 25, 2022, delayed the execution of Lucio, the only Latina on the state's death row, who was set to die April 27, 2022. [71] Taylor Rene Parker Parker was convicted for the October 2020 slaying of her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage Hancock.
On May 13, 2019, an African American woman, Pamela Turner, was shot and killed by a police officer from Baytown, Texas. [1]The incident occurred at a parking lot of an apartment complex where both Turner and Officer Juan Delacruz (of the Baytown Police Department), were living at the time [1] [2] during an attempt to arrest her for outstanding warrants.
Rosing agreed to make a guilty plea after sitting for a mediation session with the woman she attacked College student who used the n-word 200 times in drunken attack on Black classmate faces jail ...
A college student who went on a drunken tirade using the n-word 200 times will now head to jail for a year.. Sophia Rosing, a former student at the University of Kentucky, became infamous in 2022 ...
Andre Segura, legal director for the ACLU of Texas, was quoted in a press release, "The same result must apply to Crystal—a woman who was not aware she was ineligible to vote and had no reason to risk her liberty." On March 31, 2021, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to consider Crystal Mason's appeal. [3]
August 2020 pardon granted by Donald Trump. Alice Marie Johnson (born May 30, 1955) [2] is an American criminal justice reform advocate and former federal prisoner. She was convicted in 1996 for her involvement in a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Would you rather your community build a library or a jail? Nearly 20 years ago, a group of Black women asked that same question in Forest Hill, Texas