Take No Chances if You are Charged With a Capital Crime
While the pace of executions has slowed in recent years, Texas is not a good state for facing charges carrying the death penalty. Even during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Texas executed three people in 2020 – one of only two states to execute anyone that year – and delayed or withdrew eight more […]
Rosendo Rodriguez Becomes the Fourth Person Executed in Texas in 2018
On March 27, 2018, the state of Texas executed 38-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez III, making him the fourth person executed in Texas so far this year. Rodriguez was known in the media as the “suitcase killer” because the UPC code on a suitcase was an important piece of evidence in his capital murder case. The Murders, […]
Governor Abbott Commutes Sentence of Death Row Inmate Bart Whitaker
Although 31 states currently allow capital punishment for the most serious crimes, only about a fifth of people sentenced to death since Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 Supreme Court decision that reinstated the death penalty, have actually been executed. Many death row inmates have died of natural causes, effectively serving a life sentence after being […]