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The perpetrator was identified as 25-year-old Jose Gonzalez (born May 2, 1991), a local resident of the Bronx with a long criminal history. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He had received psychiatric treatment for mental illnesses like schizophrenia and depression . [ 2 ]
In March 2018, she won the Republican primary to be a Judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. [3] Her opponent in the General Election was Libertarian Mark Ash. [ 5 ] She went on to win the general election, receiving 4,760,576 votes or 74% of the vote. [ 6 ]
The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.
William G. McConnell Unit (ML) is a Texas state prison located in unincorporated Bee County, Texas, [1] along Texas State Highway 181, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the city limits of Beeville. [2] It is a part of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).
The prison for males, classified as a "prison," is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, administered as within Region VI. [1] The Robertson Unit has space for 1,244 inmates in General Population, plus a large Restricted Housing facility.
Brewer and King were the first White men to be sentenced to death for killing a Black person in the history of modern Texas. [3] In 2001, Byrd's lynching-by-dragging led the state of Texas to pass a hate crimes law, which later led the United States Congress to pass the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. [4]
The world's top-ranked golfer, Scottie Scheffler, was detained by police after he was accused of dragging an officer with his car Friday outside the PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky ...
Kerry Max Cook was born in Stuttgart, West Germany, and moved to Texas with his family in 1972.He served over 20 years in a Texas prison on Death Row. Since his release, he has become an activist against the death penalty, speaking across the United States and in Europe.