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Huntsville Murder Suspect Seen at Dallas Pawn Shop
Huntsville police are looking for a vicious killer and they think their man might be somewhere in North Texas. When a 17-year-old girl was found stabbed to death on Labor Day, Huntsville detectives...
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Justices Stop Execution Of Fort Worth Murderer
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - A former Army recruiter who maintained his innocence in the rape-slaying of a woman in Fort Worth nine years ago received a reprieve from execution Tuesday evening. Cleve Foster’s...
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Tarrant County Murderer Loses Clemency Bid
HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Condemned prisoner Cleve Foster has moved a step closer to execution scheduled for Tuesday evening with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles refusing a petition to commute his...
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1st Texas Execution With New Drug Set For Tuesday
LIVINGSTON (AP) - Condemned inmate Cary Kerr acknowledges that the prospect of becoming the first Texas prisoner to be executed with a new drug is unsettling. “It’s very scary,” Kerr said recently from...
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Man Set To Die For 1988 Dallas Killing & $7 Robbery
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - Convicted killer Gayland Bradford is headed to the Texas death chamber for the robbery-slaying of a Dallas grocery store security guard almost 23 years ago. The 42-year-old Bradford...
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Texas Inmate Set To Die For 9/11 Retaliation Killings
Mark Stroman, who is on Death Row for killing an Indian man during a shooting spree that began after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks HUNTSVILLE (AP) - Condemned inmate Mark Stroman was looking to the...
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Supreme Court Halts Texas Execution
HUNTSVILLE (CBS/AP) –The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday halted the execution of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because...
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3rd Death Date In 2011 For Fort Worth Murderer
LIVINGSTON (AP) – Condemned inmate Cleve Foster already has been spared twice this year from the Texas death chamber and says he’s not concerned another execution date is looming this week. The...
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Warren Jeffs Out Of Hospital, Heads To Another TX Prison
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was en route to a Texas state prison Tuesday night following his discharge from a hospital at another prison where he was treated after becoming...
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Former Texas Prison Cook Wants Last Meal Continued
HOUSTON (AP) – A former Texas inmate who cooked the final meals for hundreds of condemned prisoners is offering to start doing it again at no cost to the state now that officials have ended the...
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Death Sentences & Executions At Record Low In Texas
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A group that monitors capital murder cases in Texas says there may be a shift in public attitude. According to The Texas Defender Service (TDS), there were only 13 executions...
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Dallas Man To Die For Killing 10-Month-Old Boy
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - Jesse Joe Hernandez already was a convicted child sex offender when he was arrested for the horrendous beating death of a 10-month-old boy he was babysitting at a Dallas home. Little...
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Man Executed For Role In Fatal Dallas Robbery
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - A Texas man condemned for a robbery in which three people were shot, one fatally, apologized to a woman who survived the 2002 attack and family members of the slain man before...
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Fort Worth Murderer Granted Execution Reprieve
HUNTSVILLE (AP) – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stopped this week’s scheduled execution of a convicted killer whose mental health had become an issue in his appeals. The state’s highest...
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Texas Executes 1st Inmate Using Single Drug
Convicted killer Yokamon Hearn was executed on July 18, 2012 for the carjacking murder of 23-year-old Plano stockbroker Frank Meziere. (credit: Dallas County Sheriff’s Department) HUNTSVILLE (AP) - A...
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Man Convicted For Killing Texas Police Informant Set To Die
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A Texas death row inmate scheduled to die later Tuesday for the killing of a police informant 20 years ago is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with his attorneys that he’s too...
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Irving Car Wash Killer Set To Be Executed
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - The Texas parole board has rejected a clemency request from a convicted killer set to die this week for a robbery and shooting spree that left five people dead at a Dallas-area car...
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Texas Executes Man For 12-Year-Old Girl’s Death
HUNTSVILLE (AP) - A Texas man whose lawyers argued was mentally ill and incompetent for execution was put to death Wednesday evening for killing a 12-year-old girl more than a decade ago. Jonathan...
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No More Delays, Dallas DA Wants Murderer Executed
Mugshot of convicted murderer Bobby Lee Hines. (credit: Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice) NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s been nearly 21 years to the day since Michelle Wendy Haupt was found beaten,...
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Man To Die For 2002 Slaying Of East Texas Woman
HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Condemned Texas prisoner Mario Swain is to die for the beating, stabbing and strangling of a woman during a break-in at her East Texas home a decade ago. The 33-year-old Swain faces...
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