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At least 200 people sentenced to die since 1973 were later exonerated, including 18 in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Lucio is one of seven women on death row in Texas ...
Steven Lawayne Nelson was born in Ada, Oklahoma, on February 18, 1987.Nelson, who had a brother and sister (who was deaf), was a victim of childhood abuse and neglect. Nelson's mother left him at home by himself, sometimes for 3 to 4 days, and never paid much attention to her children, while Nelson's father was often absent in his life, and he was abusive towards his children and w
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
[34] [35] Thornburg is currently incarcerated on death row at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit since the end of his trial. [36] Death sentences in Texas are automatically appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, with inmates being entitled to a post-conviction appeal and a federal habeas appeal thereafter; the average duration between being ...
After nearly 47 years, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this week exonerated Kerry Max Cook for the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards, declaring him innocent of a crime for which he spent nearly ...
A Texas judge said that a mother who has been on death row since 2008 over the death of her toddler is "actually innocent," with a decision on her release now in the hands of Texas’s Court of ...
Allan B. Polunsky Unit houses the State of Texas death row for men. Huntsville Unit, where Wesbrook was put to death. Wesbrook's trial only went on for 11 days before a verdict was reached. At his trial, he admitted to killing the victims, but he claimed that he did not intend to kill anyone, and said that he killed the victims in a fit of rage.
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 ...