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On December 6, 1999, two days before Long was to be executed, he took an overdose of prescription drugs. He was placed on a ventilator and admitted to an intensive care unit in Galveston, Texas. Officials in Texas refused to delay his execution. Long's condition improved significantly by the day after the overdose.
From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way. [2] After an 18-year gap following Furman v. Georgia, executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in Gregg v. Georgia, which also included a companion case from Texas), among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection.
Once the state has set an execution date death-row inmates may litigate their competency to be executed in habeas corpus proceedings. Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) – IQ tests alone can not be used as a rigid limit for determining intellectual disability. Moore v. Texas, No. 15-797, 581 U.S. ___ (2017) Dunn v. Madison, No. 17-193, 583 U ...
Richard Michael Cartwright (February 11, 1974 – May 19, 2005) [1] [2] was a Death Row inmate and activist who was executed by the state of Texas for the stabbing and shooting of 37-year-old Nick Moraida during a robbery in Corpus Christi on August 1, 1996.
UPDATE (9:45 p.m.) – The Texas Supreme Court halted the execution of Robert Roberson, just hours before his execution order was set to expire.
How a stunning 11th-hour race to save a Texas death row inmate from execution in ‘shaken baby’ case unfolded ... of murder in the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, which was attributed ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 2000 and 2009. All of the 248 people (246 males and 2 females) during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
Mangrum's restraining order came after Texas lawmakers issued a subpoena to 57-year-old Roberson Wednesday night in a last-minute legal effort to stop his execution, which would be the first in ...