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On February 3, 2012, on the third anniversary of Cole's exoneration, the State of Texas unveiled a historical marker at his grave. In June 2012, the Lubbock City Council voted to honor Cole with a memorial. The statue, created by Lubbock-based sculptor Eddie Dixon, [14] is the first of its kind to recognize a wrongfully convicted person. [15]
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 ] Her term on the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals began on January 1, 2019 [ 1 ] and she replaced Judge Elsa Alcala.
Gonzalo Artemio Lopez (February 10, 1976 – June 2, 2022) [1] was an American fugitive, mass murderer, and prison escapee who killed a total of six people in separate murders in 2005 and 2022.
He was 7 under par, two shots from lead, after going 3 under through 12 holes. The golfer, 27, turned pro in 2018 and has appeared in the PGA championships four times. He won the Master’s in ...
The Texas 7 were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000. Six of the seven were apprehended over a month later, between January 22–24, 2001, as a direct result of the television show America's Most Wanted .
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003.
It expanded into a transnational criminal organization that traded mainly across the US-Mexico border. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Currently one of the most violent gangs in the United States, [ 8 ] they are said to have over 3,000 members across the country in locations such as New Mexico, Texas, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania as well as at least 5,000 ...
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]