Local News Death row inmate Robert Roberson's legal team fires back at Texas Attorney GeneralBy Matthew Davisson October 24, 2024 / 10:25 PM CDT / CBS Texas Huntsville — One week after a last-ditch subpoena stopped death row inmate Robert Roberson's execution, and we still...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A 61-year-old Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for killing a Houston police officer more than three decades ago. Robert Jennings received lethal injection for the July 1988 fatal shooting of Officer Elston Howard during a robbery at an adult bookstore that authoriti...
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. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shooting of ...
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. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal shoot...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas prison system officials will resume inmate transportation Monday with tougher security after a convicted murderer escaped a prison van and killed five people, officials said. In a statement, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said inmate transportation would...
Robert Pruett received the reprieve from his trial court judge, Bert Richardson, just hours before he could have been taken to the Texasdeath chamberat a Huntsville prison. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said Pruett told him that he was "excited to hear the news" ...
Earlier this week, Lopez was on a bus with 15 other inmates and two guards en route to Huntsville from Gatesville, says the US Marshals. Lopez managed to free himself from his restraints and use an object to stab the bus driver. During the struggle, which ended up outside the bus, Lop...
Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CDT following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the January 2001 killing of Bridget Townsend. Gonzales was repeatedly apologetic to the victim's relatives in his last statement from the execution chamber. ...
HUNTSVILLE, Texas- No one disputes that Scott Panetti - heavily armed, head shaved and wearing camouflage - shot and killed his in-laws at their Texas Hill Country home, showering his estranged wife and 3-year-old daughter in blood.
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. He was condemned for the June 1990 fatal ...