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The murders of John Forest "Johnny" Goosey and Stacy Marie Barnett [1] occurred on July 21, 2009, in the West Campus area of Austin, Texas, when a man (James Richard "Ricky" Thompson Jr.), who had two accomplices, shot to death two recent graduates from the University of Texas at Austin who originated from the Greater Houston area.
The Texas State Cemetery (TSC) is a cemetery located on about 22 acres (8.9 ha) just east of downtown Austin, the capital of the U.S. state of Texas.Originally the burial place of Edward Burleson, Texas Revolutionary general and vice-president of the Republic of Texas, it was expanded into a Confederate cemetery during the Civil War.
Huntsville Unit, the location of the State of Texas execution chamber. The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 20 February 2025.
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Oakwood Cemetery, originally called City Cemetery, is the oldest city-owned cemetery in Austin, Texas.Situated on a hill just east of I-35 that overlooks downtown Austin, just north of the Swedish Hill Historic District and south of Disch-Falk Field, the once-isolated site is now in the center of the city.
Norman Lear, winner of the Carol Burnett Award, speaks during the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards broadcast on Feb. 28, 2021. Two weeks after Norman Lear died at age 101, new details have shed new ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who faces the prospect of becoming the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a “shaken baby” death, was a no-show Friday at a hearing ...
A University of Texas at Dallas student was found dead a week after he disappeared, according to officials. Andrew Zhou Li, 20, was last seen on the evening of Feb. 24 at his on-campus apartment.