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The March to Abolish the Death Penalty is the current name of an event organized each October since 2000 by several Texas anti-death penalty organizations, including: Texas Moratorium Network; the Austin chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty; the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement; and Texas Students Against the Death Penalty. [70]
Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against a Mexican national charged with fatally shooting five people in a Texas home, after a grand jury indicted him for capital murder, the district ...
A Texas jury early Wednesday recommended a south Texas man be sentenced to death for fatally shooting a state trooper in 2019. The Hidalgo County jury that convicted Victor Godinez last week of ...
Chapter 5, Articles 5.04 and 5.05 detail the duties of peace officers when responding to family violence calls. These include protecting the victim, helping the victim move to a safer place, and providing victims with written instructions about the legal actions they can take to protect themselves from the offender.
Life in Texas prison vs. death row. Earlier Tuesday, more than an hour of testimony outside the presence of the jury kicked off the third week of Elders’ trial, with the defense challenging a ...
The Texas Supreme Court Building houses the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) is the court of last resort for all criminal matters in Texas. The Court, which is based in the Supreme Court Building in Downtown Austin, [2] is composed of a presiding judge and eight judges.
Texas prosecutors had urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a filing Wednesday evening to reject the emergency appeal brought by Roberson's legal team in the wake of an earlier decision from the state's ...
On August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury, but has since been cleared on all charges. [1] [2] [3] The first charge of the indictment was abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state public corruption prosecutors department.