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Texas Inmate Set To Die For 1997 Rampage That Killed 5
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter LIVINGSTON (AP) — Texas prisoner Coy Wesbrook is realistic about the likelihood he’ll be executed Wednesday for a shooting rampage more than 18 years ago that left...
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Texas Prison Plays Hide-And-Seek With Ex-Polygamist Sect Leader Warren Jeffs
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Earlier this year, a wife of former polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs tried to visit him at a Texas state prison with a tiny microphone...
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Commerce Man Executed For Killing City Code Enforcement Worker
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) – A Texas man on death row for killing a worker who was on his property looking for city code violations was put to death Tuesday. Adam Ward was...
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Texas Parole Board: No Reprieve For Dallas Man Set To Die
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) – The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has turned down a clemency petition from a Dallas man set to die this week for fatally shooting his two...
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Dallas Man Set To Be Executed For Killing Daughters
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Enraged over his ex-wife going to police about his harassment and likely arrest, John David Battaglia used a May 2001 visit with their two young...
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Texas Man Set To Die Said He Drank Victim’s Blood
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNSTVILLE (AP) — Pablo Lucio Vasquez remembered getting drunk and high on an April evening in 1998 before leaving a party with his 15-year-old cousin and his...
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South Texas Man Set To Die Said He Drank Victim’s Blood
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNSTVILLE (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to block the scheduled execution a South Texas man for the slaying of a 12-year-old boy whose blood the...
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On Death Row 35 Years, Texas Inmate Dies Of Natural Causes
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HOUSTON (AP) — A man on death row for 35 years for a Houston robbery where three people were shot and killed and a fourth was severely wounded has died of natural...
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Autopsy Pending After Woman In Texas Jail Dies
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE(AP) – A woman arrested following a car accident in Texas declined medical treatment after the wreck but died two weeks later after going into...
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Court Blocks Texas Execution Set For This Week
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A man set for execution this week for the slaying of a 64-year-old suburban Dallas grandmother during a burglary of her home more than 18 years...
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Karolyis’ Texas Ranch Flips To USA Gymnastics After Rio
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) – The face at the top of U.S. women’s gymnastics will change next month when longtime national team coordinator Martha Karolyi retires following...
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Court: Texas Death Row Inmate May Have Faked Mental Illness
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas death row inmate may have faked mental illness to avoid execution for the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend and her daughter 23 years ago...
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2016 Marks Low Point For Death Sentences Since 1970s
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) — Only 30 people were sentenced to death in the United States this year, the lowest number since the early 1970s and a further sign of the steady...
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Texas Carries Out First U.S. Execution Of 2017
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Texas on Wednesday put to death an inmate convicted of killing two men over a phony drug deal, the first U.S. execution of 2017. Christopher...
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Hit Man In San Antonio Murder-For-Hire Slaying Set To Die
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A hitman hired to kill a woman in an insurance scam, is scheduled for lethal injection tomorrow. Rolando Ruiz is facing lethal...
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Hitman In Texas Murder-For-Hire Murder Put To Death
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A paid hitman was executed Tuesday night in Texas for gunning down a San Antonio woman in a life insurance scheme nearly a quarter-century ago....
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Man Who Killed A Father And Son Set For Execution
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A Fort Worth man convicted of killing a father and his infant son in 1987 is set for execution Tuesday evening. Sixty-one-year-old James Bigby...
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Lawyer: No Late Appeals Likely For Texas Inmate Set To Die
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Appeals appeared to be exhausted and no last-day legal attempts were expected for a man scheduled to die Tuesday evening for killing a...
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Dallas Killer Gets Execution Date For 1999 Murder
HUNTSVILLE (AP) – A Dallas man on death row for the slaying of his ex-girlfriend more than 17 years ago has received an execution date for early next year. Texas Department of Criminal Justice...
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Lawyers: Texas Inmate Facing Execution Lacked Legal Help
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Attorneys for a condemned killer of a San Antonio woman argue that deficient legal help during earlier stages of his appeals tainted his case and that he should be spared from being...
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Texas Executes Man For Killing Woman In 2004 After Break-In
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prisoner was executed Thursday evening for killing a San Antonio woman after breaking into her apartment more than 13 years ago. TaiChin Preyor, 46, was put to death...
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Lawyers Try To Stop Mexican Citizen’s Execution In Texas
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Attorneys for a Mexican citizen on Texas death row for the abduction and slaying of his 16-year-old cousin more than 20 years ago looked to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals...
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Roy Moore Dismisses Allegations, Says Lawsuit To Come
GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore of Alabama is calling a newspaper report carrying allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl four decades ago “fake news” and says a suit will be filed in...
View ArticleUSA Gymnastics Ends Agreement To Train At Karolyi Ranch In Texas
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The long relationship between USA Gymnastics and the Karolyi Ranch is over. The organization announced Thursday it has terminated its agreement to have the ranch outside of...
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Execution Set For Dallas Man Who Killed Ex-Girlfriend While On Parole For...
HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Carol Lynn Thomas Hall knew William Rayford had spent time in prison for killing his estranged wife but defended her own relationship with him, telling relatives she believed it was...
View ArticleCourt Rejects Appeal From British Woman On Texas Death Row
HOUSTON (AP) — A British woman on death row in Texas has lost an appeal. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which is the state’s highest criminal appeals court, ruled Wednesday that a lower court...
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Execution Set For Killer Of 93-Year-Old East Texas Woman
TYLER, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — An East Texas man on death row for the murder of a 93-year-old woman during a robbery at her home has received an execution date. State District Judge Christi Kennedy...
View ArticleNassar Victims Urge Texas Authorities To Investigate Karolyis
AUSTIN (AP) – Victims of disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar are imploring Texas authorities to investigate whether Bela and Martha Karolyi could have done more to prevent Nassar’s sexual abuse at the...
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Execution Dates For 2 Fort Worth Inmates On Death Row
HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas prison officials have received court documents setting execution dates for two prisoners from the Fort Worth area, bringing to eight the number of inmates set for...
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Texas Officials To Address Claims Of Abuse At Karolyi Ranch
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Investigators in Texas are expected to address allegations of criminal behavior by disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar at the famed gymnastics training center run by Bela and...
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Convicted Killer, Former Officer Roy Oliver Sent To Prison In Huntsville
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Roy Oliver, the former Balch Springs police officer convicted of murder, has been taken to prison by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to start serving his...
View ArticleTexas Guard Charged With Assaulting Prisoner Who Later Died
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A Texas prison guard is charged with assaulting an inmate who later died from his injuries. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Tuesday that D’Andre Glasper, who resigned...
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Pence Calls For Landing US Astronauts On Moon ‘By Any Means Necessary’
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is calling for landing astronauts on the moon within five years. At a meeting of the National Space Council in Huntsville, Alabama, on Tuesday,...
View Article3 Sisters, 1 Friend Killed In Central Texas Crash On Way To Drill Team...
BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – Three sisters — a high school junior, an eighth grader and a sixth grader — from Huntsville and a friend died in a two-vehicle crash in Central Texas as they...
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TCU Football Player Sewo Olonilua Arrested In Huntsville For Drug Possession
FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas Christian University running back Sewo Olonilua was arrested for felony drug possession in southeast Texas, authorities say. Olonilua was booked into the Walker...
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Texas Inmate Larry Swearingen To Be Executed Wednesday For Rape, Murder Of...
UPDATE: Texas Man Executed For College Student’s Murder In 1998 HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Texas death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday for the abduction, rape and murder of a...
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Texas Death Row Inmate Larry Swearingen Executed For College Student’s Murder...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – A Texas death row inmate who argued that his conviction was based on junk science was executed Wednesday for the abduction, rape and killing of a suburban Houston...
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Inmate Set To Be Executed For Killing North Texas Grandmother In 2010
HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Prosecutors say he was on an 8-day crime spree, that included thefts and another killing, when he fatally shot a North Texas grandmother in her home. Tonight Mark Anthony...
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Former White Supremacist Gang Member Justen Hall Executed For 2002 Strangulation
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Former white supremacist gang member Justen Hall has been executed for strangling a West Texas woman over fears she would alert police about his drug operation. Hall received a...
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Ex-USA Gymnastics Trainer Has Sexual Assault Count Dropped In Larry Nassar Case
Prosecutors have dropped a sexual assault charge against a former trainer who worked alongside imprisoned ex-sports doctor Larry Nassar at the famed Karolyi gymnastics ranch in Texas.
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