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Uvalde school shooting: Latest details on Robb Elementary shooting that killed 19 children, 2 teachers

The last week of classes at Robb Elementary School ended in terror when a gunman opened fire, killing 21 people on Tuesday.

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Uvalde school shooting: Latest details on Robb Elementary shooting that killed 19 children, 2 teachers

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TribCast: Melissa Lucio gets a late reprieve

In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Jolie about the stay of execution in Lucio’s case and with Josh about property taxes in Texas.

U.S. Supreme Court will consider appeal for DNA testing in Rodney Reed death penalty case

Reed has long professed his innocence in the 1996 murder for which he faces execution. Key evidence in the case has not been tested for DNA, including the ligature used to strangle 19-year-old Stacey Stites.

Listen as Melissa Lucio learns her life has been spared

Lucio learned of her reprieve in a phone call from state Rep. Jeff Leach.

Melissa Lucio’s execution halted by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Acknowledging substantive questions about Lucio’s guilt and the fairness of her conviction, the appeals court blocked her Wednesday execution so the case can be further investigated.

Texas executes Carl Buntion, the state’s oldest death row prisoner, for Houston police officer’s murder

Buntion, 78, was sentenced to death for the 1990 murder of a Houston police officer. His Thursday execution was the first Texas has carried out this year.

Prosecutor moves to stop execution of inmate whose religious freedom case reached U.S. Supreme Court

The Nueces County district attorney, Mark A. Gonzalez, has moved to withdraw the death warrant for John Henry Ramirez, convicted of a 2004 robbery and murder.

Facing harsh criticism in the Melissa Lucio case, Texas prosecutor may temporarily spare the woman many believe is innocent

Federal judges, five jurors who convicted her and a roster of family, politicians and celebrities believe there are substantive doubts about whether the death of Lucio’s 2-year-old daughter was even a murder. A prosecutor Tuesday appeared to open the door to canceling her scheduled April 27 execution.

TribCast: Two death penalty cases draw attention in Texas

In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Andrew and Jolie about Texans’ role in the confirmation hearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson and two important death penalty cases.

More than half of the Texas House wants to stop the execution of Melissa Lucio, convicted of killing her toddler

Despite substantive doubts surrounding the cause of her child’s death and a suspect “confession” obtained after hours of interrogation, Lucio is set to be executed next month for killing her 2-year-old daughter.

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U.S. Supreme Court tells Texas to let a condemned man’s pastor touch him and pray aloud during execution

The Supreme Court ruled that the state likely violated death row inmate John Ramirez’s religious liberties when it denied his request to have his pastor lay his hands on him and pray during his upcoming execution.

Spared execution once, Texas prisoner Kenneth Foster could face death penalty again after cellmate's death

Foster had been the getaway driver, not the triggerman, in a killing that first put him on death row. Former Gov. Rick Perry commuted his death sentence to life in prison in 2007.

U.S. Supreme Court justices appear reluctant to loosen restrictions on religious advisers during Texas executions

The latest Texas execution protocols forbid spiritual advisers from praying aloud or touching prisoners as the prisoners are killed. Some members of the high court said they feared overturning the rules would lead to a flood of requests for other religious accommodations during executions.

Rejecting claims of innocence, judge says Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed should not get a new trial

Doubts over Reed’s guilt in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites have lingered for more than 20 years and gained international attention. But a judge decided against recommending a new trial.

Texas executes Pasadena double murderer in third lethal injection this year

Rick Rhoades was convicted of killing two brothers 30 years ago, the day after he'd been released from prison on parole. His attorneys argued that racial bias in jury selection denied him a fair trial.

Texas court tosses out conviction, death sentence after discovering a prosecutor also worked for the judge

Clinton Young was convicted in a 2001 Midland County murder in which he insists he was framed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said he was denied the right to a fair trial and an impartial judge.

For third time in recent years, U.S. Supreme Court halts a Texas execution over rules for religious advisers in the death chamber

John Ramirez was scheduled to die Wednesday. His last request to the state had been to let his pastor hold on to him as he died, something the state denied. The high court wants to hear oral arguments on the matter later this year.

Texas executes John Hummel for murdering his family in 2009

A civil liberties group had tried to delay Hummel's death after reporters were excluded from the state’s last execution.

‘The pain doesn’t go away’: Family gives statement after death penalty overturned in Noah Espada’s capital murder conviction

Noah Espada's death sentence overthrown by an appeals court after it was found that faulty testimony was given during the punishment phase.

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For the first time in more than 40 years, media was not allowed to witness a Texas execution

On Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999.

As Texas prepares to execute Quintin Jones for murdering his great-aunt, his relatives hope for last-minute reprieve

Jones was sentenced to death in 2001 in Tarrant County after he fatally beat his great-aunt, 83-year-old Berthena Bryant, with a baseball bat. But two relatives say they’ve forgiven him and want his sentence commuted to life in prison.

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