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Cruz v. Beto, 405 U.S. 319 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court upheld a Free Exercise claim based on the allegations that the state of Texas had discriminated against a Buddhist prisoner by "denying him a reasonable opportunity to pursue his Buddhist faith comparable to that offered other prisoners adhering to conventional religious precepts."
Irene Garza (November 15, 1934 – April 1960) was an American schoolteacher and beauty queen whose death was the subject of investigation for several decades. She was last seen alive on April 16, 1960, when she went to confession at a church in McAllen, Texas. She was reported missing the following morning.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
The court ruled 8-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas as the lone dissenter.
Huntsville Unit, the location of the State of Texas execution chamber. The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 20 February 2025.
Religious hate crime 2007 NASA Johnson Space Center: Houston April 20, 2007 2 Work Place Violence triggered by unsatisfactory job review. Hostage taking, with eventual suicide by perpetrator 2009 Fort Hood shooting: Fort Hood: November 5, 2009: 14: Terrorist attack perpetrated by on-base US Army major University of Texas Library shooting: Austin
Whereas religious civil liberties, such as the right to hold or not to hold a religious belief, are essential for Freedom of Religion (in the United States secured by the First Amendment), religious discrimination occurs when someone is denied "the equal protection of the laws, equality of status under the law, equal treatment in the ...
Under the law in Texas, doctors who perform abortions risk life in prison and fines of up to $100,000. Opponents say that has left some women with providers who are unwilling to even discuss ...