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Nestor Hernandez, the parolee accused of killing two people at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, had an ankle monitor but got permission to be at the hospital Saturday.
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Mike and Mark Sheppard, both charged in the shooting death of a migrant man in Hudspeth County, were released from jail on bond Monday night, the county sheriff’s office said.
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Sunset Advisory commission met to discuss the fate of the system that the interim director said was "collapsing."
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The Department of Justice says the weapons illegally sold by Demontre Antwon Hackworth, 31, were later used in over a dozen crimes, including the killing of a 21-year-old Black transgender woman.
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The review came after Gonzalo Lopez escaped on May 12 and eventually killed five people.
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The review comes after Gonzalo Lopez escaped from a prison bus last month. Authorities say he killed a family of five before they found and killed him.
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The 78-year-old Carl Wayne Buntion died by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering Houston police officer James Irby during a traffic stop in 1990.
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The Nueces County district attorney is trying to withdraw the execution date for a Texas death row inmate that was rescheduled for October. John Henry Ramirez’s execution was previously halted by the U.S. Supreme Court, while the justices considered his claim that the state was violating his religious freedom.
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A new report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty finds the state’s death row population dropped to 199 this year. New death sentences and executions also remained near historic lows.
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The regulations were loosened around the same time that the delta variant of the coronavirus began to surge.
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While many Texas prisons are understaffed, some dangerously so, the emptied-out Briscoe Unit in Dilley is in "maintenance mode" as officials scramble to implement the governor's plan to increase the state's role in border enforcement.
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TxDOT was told in March to pause its North Houston Highway Improvement Project over civil rights and environmental concerns raised through the public input process.