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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 ...
Nearby also is the Mountain View Unit, which houses all Texas female inmates on death row. Crain Unit's regular program houses around 1,500 women, and it is one of Texas's main prisons for women. [2] Female prison offenders of the TDCJ are released from this unit. [3] With a capacity of 2,013 inmates, Crain is the TDCJ's largest female prison. [4]
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.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
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.
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]
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