Texas, row execution and appellate court

Texas court delays execution of man on death row for 32 years, days before he was set to die
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and young women found buried in the desert near El Paso.
Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction
State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her being sentenced to death, a federal appellate court panel ruled Friday.
Hearing date set for death row inmate Nikko Jenkins to dismiss conviction appeal
A Nebraska death row inmate who penned a motion expressing his wishes to dismiss past conviction appeals has a hearing date set. Nikko Jenkins was convicted of killing three men and a young mother — Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge C. Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger — in 2013.
Texas court issues rare stay of execution for Death Row inmate who fought for DNA testing
The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
Stay granted for Texas death row inmate two days before scheduled execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.
Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court
A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.
Federal appeals court reverses conviction of Texas woman on death row after 27 years
A federal appeals court has reversed the murder conviction of a 52-year-old Texas woman who has been on death row for close to three decades. In 1998, Brittany Marlowe Holberg was found guilty by an Amarillo jury of murdering 80-year-old A.
Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for husband in South Florida triple murder
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Nathan Gingles, the man accused of killing his wife, her father and an ...
Prosecutors decide against death penalty for parents accused of murdering 7-year-old
Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...
Bill to repeal death penalty in Pa. gets bipartisan support in Legislature
The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...
Louisiana death row inmate seeks more ‘humane’ method of execution
A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...
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How Alabama’s first commuted death sentence this century came about
Robin “Rocky” Myers has been on Alabama’s death row for more than 30 years. Then, on February 28, he became the first ...
Autopsy reveals that second South Carolina death row inmate died with fluid in his lungs
The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...
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Death penalty, guns topics of 2 bills introduced in Nevada Senate
If it seems like death penalty cases drag out in the courts already, new legislation introduced on Thursday would ensure that ...