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  2. Texas Seven - Wikipedia

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    The surviving members were all convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Irving, Texas, police officer Aubrey Wright Hawkins, who was shot and killed when responding to a robbery perpetrated by the Texas Seven. Four of the six sentenced have since been executed, and another has been granted a new trial based on alleged judicial bias.

  3. Lists of people executed in Texas - Wikipedia

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    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 3 December 2024. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]

  4. The US has executed 23 men this year. A look at the state of ...

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    Four days later on Sept. 24, two men were executed within an hour of each other: Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri at 6:10 p.m. CT even though the prosecutors in the case and the victim ...

  5. Crime in Houston - Wikipedia

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    Houston's murder rate in 2005 ranked 46th of U.S. cities with a population over 250,000 in 2005 (per capita rate of 16.3 murders per 100,000 population). [1] In 2010, the city's murder rate (per capita rate of 11.8 murders per 100,000 population) was ranked sixth among U.S. cities with a population of over 750,000 (behind New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia) [2 ...

  6. New trial ordered for Texas death row inmate due to judge's ...

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    Halprin, 47, was among the group of inmates known as the "Texas 7" who escaped from a South Texas prison in December 2000 and then committed numerous robberies, including the one in which they ...

  7. Raymond Riles - Wikipedia

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    Riles was born in 1950 in Harris County, Texas.He completed seven years of education and later earned a general equivalency diploma (GED). [1] Riles's arrest record, which began when he was a juvenile, included arrests for attempted rape, burglary, and robbery. [2]

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Youth counselors for YSI — those who work directly with juvenile inmates — earn about $10.50 an hour, or just under $22,000 per year, according to contract proposals from 2010. Because of frequent turnover and absences among staff, double shifts are common, adding additional stress to the job, former employees said.

  9. Cruel and All-Too-Usual - The Huffington Post

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    Doug Mullkoff, a criminal defense attorney in Ann Arbor, told me that prison in such circumstances is "virtually unheard of." But Jamie is from Detroit, and in January 2012, she was sent to the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, a prison that holds inmates convicted of crimes like first-degree homicide.