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Texas resumes ex*****ons after 5-month delay due to pandemic HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of ex*****ons in the nation's busiest death penalty state because of the coronavirus pandemic. Billy Joe Wardlow was put to....

“The high court twice slammed Texas' method for determining the disability, which relied on decades-old medical standards and a controversial set of factors created by judges. Several men, including Moore, have since been taken off of death row after courts determined — under the new criteria formed — that they were intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty.”

Bobby Moore's Supreme Court case changed how Texas defines intellectual disabilities. After 40 years in prison, he's just been granted parole. Moore was resentenced from the death penalty to life in prison last year after the U.S. Supreme Court determined he was intellectually disabled. Since he had already served 40 years, he was immediately eligible for parole.

”In a sweeping decision released Friday, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that over 100 death row inmates have the opportunity to prove racism affected their sentences because they had filed a claim under the state’s Racial Justice Act (RJA) before it was repealed in 2013. If the defendants win their hearings, they’ll be re-sentence to life without parole.”

N.C. Supreme Court Rules Over 100 Death Row Inmates Have Chance to Prove Racism Affected Their Sentences The ruling comes amid mass protests across the U.S. to demand an end to systemic racism

Supreme Court orders temporary stay of Nathaniel Woods' ex*****on in Alabama

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Colorado lawmakers pass death penalty repeal, send it to governor State lawmakers in Denver voted to pass and send to the governor on Wednesday a ...

Don’t miss this years TCADP conference - 2020 Vision for Texas: A Leap Towards Justice. The conference will provide a unique opportunity to connect with supporters across the state and hear about the progress being made towards abolishing the death penalty in Texas. Register at TCADP.org!

Texas officials aren’t disputing that prosecutors introduced false testimony at Travis Runnels’ 2005 capital murder trial for an Amarillo prison slaying.

They're saying the state should still execute him today even if they did.

Texas executed Travis Runnels for a prison murder. His lawyers said false testimony put him on death row. A Texas court has twice overturned death sentences because of one man’s false testimony on restrictions placed on prisoners. Runnels argued the same man’s testimony should have stopped his death, too.

According to a 2013 report by the American Bar Association, “Texas’s capital sentencing procedure is remarkably different from that of other jurisdictions,” putting the defendant’s supposed future dangerousness “at the center of the jury’s punishment decision.” With “no precise explanation” of what constitutes future dangerousness, jurors are left to interpret the concept “so broadly that a death sentence would be deemed warranted in virtually every capital murder case.”

This Man Should Not Be Executed - The American Scholar Billy Joe Wardlow murdered a man, but mitigating facts say he should not pay for that crime with his life

Make sure you stop by the commons today and write a few words of encouragement to inmates on death row for the holiday season!

There isn’t a judge to decide motions that would delay Rodney Reed ex*****on With six days to live, there is currently no judge appointed to hear pleadings that could delay Rodney Reed’s ex*****on. That’s the summary of the latest filing in the case with the Texas Court of …