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On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [20] 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.
[2] Each episode of the series focuses on a specific murder case and those convicted of the crimes, each of whom was on death row during filming. The cases profiled are: [1] James Barnes, convicted of two murders. Executed by lethal injection in Florida on August 3, 2023. [3] Joseph Garcia and George Rivas, members of the Texas Seven.
Patrick O'Daniel Unit (then Mountain View), where Routier is located. Routier's trial began on January 6, 1997, in Kerrville, Texas. [19] [20] The prosecution suggested that Routier murdered her sons because of the family's financial difficulties [21] and described Routier as "...a self-centered woman, a materialistic woman, and a woman cold enough, in fact, to murder her own two children ...
Seven Texas inmates currently on federal death row were among the 37 inmates that had their sentences commuted to life in prison by President Joe Biden on Monday.
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 ...
Martin Edward Gurule (November 7, 1969 – November 27, 1998) was an American prisoner who successfully escaped from death row in Texas in 1998. It was the first successful breakout from Texan death row since Raymond Hamilton was broken out by Bonnie and Clyde on January 16, 1934.
Here follows a list of episodes from the Discovery Channel crime documentary The FBI Files, which premiered on October 20, 1998 and ended on March 24, 2006. Series overview Season Episodes Season Premiere Season Finale DVD Release 1 13 October 20, 1998 February 23, 1999 January 6, 2009 2 18 September 28, 1999 May 30, 2000 April 21, 2009 3 18 September 12, 2000 September 18, 2001 June 19, 2009 ...
Raymond George Riles (born June 1, 1950) is an American convicted murderer who was on death row in Texas from 1976 until he was resentenced to life imprisonment in June 2021. At the time of his resentencing, Riles had been on death row longer than anyone else in the United States.