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Texas criminal appeals court takes man off death row over intellectual disability

By William Melhado, Texas Tribune, March 27, 2024.

by Clare Amari Published on November 30, 2023 Preview: It was the moans of agony that first caught Ben Wolff’s attention. As Wolff, a...

by Clare Amari Published on November 17, 2023 Preview: A district court judge on Friday declined to recommend hospice or parole for...

by Clare Amari Published on November 14, 2023 Preview: Nearly 30 years ago, death row inmate Syed Rabbani filed a legal appeal...

by Adam Liptak Published on October 24, 2022 Preview: A state judge in Texas ruled that Areli Escobar, a death row inmate there, had been...

by Marcia Coyal Published on October 19, 2022 Preview: False DNA evidence dominated the 2011 trial of Texas death row inmate Areli...

by Meagan Ellsworth Published on March, 3 2022 Preview: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the conviction of a Beaumont...

by Nicole Hensley Published on June 1, 2022 Preview: A judge’s delay in signing a death warrant — which effectively sets the date of a...

by Jerry Ianneli Published on January 20, 2021 Preview: Dubious DNA evidence—and a potential coverup by the Travis County DA’s office—are...

by Katie Hall: Published on January 6, 2021 Preview: A Travis County state district judge has recommended that an Austin man on death row...

Published on May 6, 2020 https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2020/05/06/texas-court-denies-death-row-inmates-hypnosis-appeal/

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https://www.texastribune.org/2017/10/04/texas-death-row-inmate-hector-medina-sentencing-hearing/

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/17/appeals-court-halts-east-texas-mans-execution/

By Casey Tolan Fusion Update: On June 16, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Roberson's execution, sending his case back to a...

by Chase Hoffberger Austin Chronicle Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay on the execution of...

Seeks to Dodge Death Penalty With New Evidence Field Sutton KYTX, Smith County October 21, 2014 A convicted murderer from Whitehouse...

By Chase Hoffberger Austin Chronicle September 12, 2014 On Friday, Sept. 5, theOffice of Capital Writs(the state agency charged with...

By Jazmine Ulloa Austin American Statesman June 22, 2014 Lawyers for death row inmate Areli Escobar are seeking to overturn his...