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A Nueces County jury found Pruett guilty of capital murder on April 24, 2002. The only witnesses to Nagle's murder were inmates. Nagle, who was the president of the AFSCME union local that represents McConnell guards, had complained that low pay, high turnover, and poor training of staff were turning Texas prisons into powderkegs.
As of 2024, Creech was the longest-serving death row inmate in the state. His execution, scheduled for February 28, 2024, resulted in a failed attempt and was cancelled. He remains on death row. [4] [5] His new execution date of November 13, 2024, had been scheduled, but on November 6, a federal judge halted his execution to allow for legal ...
Donald Newbury, TDCJ#999403, [36] was executed by lethal injection on February 4, 2015, at 18:25. Joseph Garcia, TDCJ#999441, [37] was executed by lethal injection on December 4, 2018, at 18:43. The remaining two members are incarcerated on death row at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, located in West Livingston. [38]
Convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran was put to death early Wednesday morning, in the State of Indiana’s first execution since 2009.. Asked if he wanted to make a final statement before receiving ...
The 54-year-old was the third person to be put to death in Texas this year
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...
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In 1978, Riles was convicted again and resentenced to the death penalty. In 1985, he was badly burned when he set his prison cell on fire in a suicide attempt. A 1986 scheduled execution was stayed because of concerns over whether the death penalty was disproportionately applied to black perpetrators with white victims.