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Steven Michael Woods Jr. (April 17, 1980 – September 13, 2011) [1] was an American who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas. [2] Woods was sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of the capital murders of Ronald Whitehead, 21, and Bethena Brosz, 19, on May 2, 2001, in The Colony, Texas. [3]
In the canonical gospels, Pilate's court refers to the trial of Jesus in the praetorium before Pontius Pilate, preceded by the Sanhedrin Trial. In the Gospel of Luke , Pilate finds that Jesus, being from Galilee , belonged to Herod Antipas ' jurisdiction, and so he decides to send Jesus to Herod .
With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as ...
It is now up to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which had asked the judge to revisit the case, to determine whether Lucio should be released. “After 16 years on death row, it’s time for ...
The Fort Worth Library maintains a collection of newspaper clippings related to this case under "Koslow, Kristi". [12] Due to the prominence of the case, in 2015 Tarrant County authorities chose to keep the paper court documents of the case as historical documents even though they have been digitized. [13] Jack Koslow died on October 31, 2023. [14]
In yet another 11th-hour development in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, a splintered Texas Court of Criminal Appeals struck down a lower court’s order halting his execution in a ...
Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), is a United States Supreme Court decision about the death penalty and intellectual disability.The court held that contemporary clinical standards determine what an intellectual disability is, and held that even milder forms of intellectual disability may bar a person from being sentenced to death due to the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel ...
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson sat praying in a cell Thursday night just feet from the execution chamber where he was set to be put to death for the murder of his toddler – even as the ...