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  2. E. W. Scripps - Wikipedia

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    Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher. He and his sister Ellen Browning Scripps founded The E. W. Scripps Company, today a diversified media conglomerate, as well as the United Press news service (which became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958).

  3. E. W. Scripps Company - Wikipedia

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    The E. W. Scripps Company was a newspaper company founded on November 2, 1878, when Edward Willis Scripps published the first issue of the Cleveland Penny Press. [4]In 1894, Scripps and his half-brother, George H. Scripps, organized their various papers into the first modern newspaper chain.

  4. List of people executed in Texas, 1930–1939 - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1930 and 1939. During this period 122 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  5. List of death row inmates in the United States who have ...

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    Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.

  6. Capital punishment in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Previously, male death row inmates were permitted to work. After an escape attempt occurred in 1998, the prison work program was eliminated. [39] In 1928, the state of Texas began housing death row inmates in the Huntsville Unit. In 1965, the male death row inmates moved to the Ellis Unit. In 1999, the male death row moved to Polunsky. [40]

  7. Texas Seven - Wikipedia

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    The film features interviews with members of The Texas 7 currently on Death Row and eyewitnesses to their crimes. The film was aired in late September 2008 on MSNBC. On March 25, 2011, Investigation Discovery aired an episode about the case on the show FBI: Criminal Pursuit , subtitled "The Deadly Seven".

  8. David Martin Long - Wikipedia

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    The conviction was overturned and Willis was released from prison in 2004, having spent 17 years on death row. On December 6, 1999, two days before Long was to be executed, he took an overdose of prescription drugs .

  9. Martin Gurule - Wikipedia

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    Martin Edward Gurule (November 7, 1969 – November 27, 1998) was an American prisoner who successfully escaped from death row in Texas in 1998. It was the first successful breakout from Texan death row since Raymond Hamilton was broken out by Bonnie and Clyde on January 16, 1934.