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After nearly 47 years, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this week exonerated Kerry Max Cook for the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards, declaring him innocent of a crime for which he spent nearly ...
Two men have been charged with capital murder in the strangulation of a 12-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow creek in north Houston. 2 men accused of strangling 12-year-old in ...
Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved pastor who was just beginning his ministerial career.. Nelson, 37, was convicted for the ...
United States Border Patrol apprehended Johan José Martínez-Rangel near El Paso on March 14, but he was released that same day, on an order of recognizance, with a notice to appear in court at a later date. U.S. Border Patrol arrested Franklin José Peña Ramos on May 28, also near El Paso, but he was also released with a notice to appear in court at a later date.
Richard "Racehorse" Haynes (April 3, 1927 – April 28, 2017) was a Texas criminal defense attorney. He became a star of the legal world after prevailing in a series of seemingly impossible murder trials in Texas in the 1970s and 1980s. [1] Time magazine named him one of the top defense attorneys in the nation. [1]
On June 20, 1992, four people were shot and killed during a drug deal at a residence on Brownstone Lane in Houston, Texas.Marion Dudley, Arthur Brown Jr., and Tony Dunson had gone to the home of Jose and Rachel Tovar to buy three kilograms of cocaine when they decided to rob them of their drugs and money.
Gerald Goines had been set to go to trial in June on two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58. ... A former Houston police officer ...
The parents of Peña and Ertman successfully advocated for the State of Texas to allow victims' relatives to have permission to witness executions in Texas. [7] Before the murders, Houston officials had stated that gangs were not a significant issue in the city. C.E. Anderson, a Houston Police Department officer who worked on the murder case ...