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At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences. Michael Anthony Rodriguez, 38, was serving a 99-to-life term for contracting the murder of his wife by Rolando Ruiz Jr., who was later executed for the crime on March 7, 2017. [21]
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 ...
Scheduled to be executed on March 7, 2025. Steven Vernon Bixby: Abbeville: Final petition for a writ of certiorari denied by the United States Supreme Court on May 15, 2023. [322] According to an order from the South Carolina Supreme Court on the execution schedule, Bixby is due to receive an execution date. Mikal Deen Mahdi: Calhoun
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 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [1]
The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...
Martin Gurule escaped from the Texas Death Row at Ellis Unit on 26 November 1998. He was shot during his escape and died the same night but his body wasn't found until a week later. [34] In 1999, Leslie Dale Martin and three other inmates on Louisiana's death row escaped from their cells at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. They were caught ...
The 54-year-old is the third person to be put to death in Texas this year, and the 11th in the US. As of 2011, death row inmates in Texas cannot request a final meal, meaning Burton had to choose ...