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Garrett was tried and convicted of the crime. [3] He was held at Ellis Unit, north of Huntsville, Texas, which at the time held men on the State of Texas's death row. [4] He was originally scheduled to be executed on January 6, 1992, but after Pope John Paul II asked for clemency, Governor of Texas Ann Richards gave him a temporary reprieve.
Dorothy Ann Richards (née Willis; September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer , when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention .
Shaka Sankofa (born Gary Lee Graham; September 5, 1963 [1] – June 22, 2000) was a Texas death-row inmate who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 for the murder of 53-year-old Bobby Grant Lambert in Houston, Texas, on May 13, 1981.
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 ...
A lawyer for a Texas death row inmate scheduled to be executed next week for his conviction of killing his 2-year-old daughter more than 20 years ago says her client is innocent.
SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping ...
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution.
The death row inmate has always claimed his innocence. Some medical professionals now believe his daughter died from a combination of severe undiagnosed chronic viral pneumonia compounded by a ...