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Oldest Texas death row inmate executed for officer’s death

Oldest Texas death row inmate executed for officer’s death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas’ oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
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Vancouver Was Awesome: Texas Guinan, 1933

Vancouver Was Awesome: Texas Guinan, 1933

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A Texas man is executed for fatally stabbing twin teenage girls in 1989

A Texas man is executed for fatally stabbing twin teenage girls in 1989

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago was executed on Tuesday evening. Garcia Glenn White was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m.
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Texas to review prayer, touch requests in executions by case

Texas to review prayer, touch requests in executions by case

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas prison officials said Tuesday they don’t plan to formally update their rules after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that indicated states must accommodate the requests of death row inmates who want to have their spiritual adviser
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Texas executes inmate for 2007 fatal shooting of Dallas cop

Texas executes inmate for 2007 fatal shooting of Dallas cop

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas on Wednesday executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago after a high-speed chase.
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Texas mass shooting suspect could be anywhere, sheriff says

Texas mass shooting suspect could be anywhere, sheriff says

CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — The search for a Texas man who allegedly shot his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard stretched into a second day Sunday, with authorities saying the man could be anywhere by now.
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Justice Department appeals Texas abortion pill order

Justice Department appeals Texas abortion pill order

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday appealed a Texas court ruling that would halt approval of a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the U.S., calling the decision “extraordinary and unprecedented.
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Texas man executed for 2003 strangling death of his mother

Texas man executed for 2003 strangling death of his mother

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who killed his mother and buried her body in her backyard was executed Wednesday in Texas despite his lawyers’ appeals that he should not be put to death because he had a history of mental illness.
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Texas man executed for 2001 killing of 5-year-old girl abducted from a store

Texas man executed for 2001 killing of 5-year-old girl abducted from a store

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of abducting and strangling a 5-year-old girl who was taken from a Walmart store while her family was doing their Christmas shopping in 2001 was executed Thursday evening.
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Texas executes inmate who fought prayer, touch rules

Texas executes inmate who fought prayer, touch rules

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate whose case redefined the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide was executed Wednesday, despite the efforts of a district attorney to stop his lethal injection.
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