San Antonio City Council District 1 incumbent Sukh Kaur and challenger Patty Gibbons will advance to a runoff, after no candidate secured 50% of the vote in the May 3 election.
Incumbent Sukh Kaur is seeking a second term as San Antonio District 1 councilwoman, and faces nearly a dozen challengers in the May 2025 election.
Texans will vote on three seats for the state’s highest criminal court in November. Here’s what the court does, who is running for office and what issues candidates are running on.
In 2001, 18-year-old Bridget Townsend was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Ramiro Gonzalez. He confessed to the crimes but his death row sentence has been anything but straightforward.
The jury sentenced Gonzales to death after a prosecution expert testified that he posed a future danger to society. The expert now says his data was wrong.
A federal judge has issued a temporary order telling Texas prison officials that they can carry out next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate only if they grant all of his religious accommodations, including allowing his spiritual adviser to hold his hand when he receives a lethal injection.
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The unresolved legal debate over whether spiritual advisers can touch inmates and pray aloud as condemned individuals are being put to death has delayed the final two executions scheduled this year in Texas.