Texas judge halts execution; state appealing
The scheduled execution of a Texas inmate condemned for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East Texas home is on hold at least temporarily....
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A Texas inmate won at least a temporary reprieve blocking his scheduled Wednesday evening execution for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East...
View ArticleThe Latest: Texas judge halts execution; state appealing
The latest on the scheduled Wednesday execution of Texas inmate Raphael Holiday (all times local): 4 p.m. The scheduled execution of a Texas...
View ArticleTexas man spared from execution temporarily; state appeals
Click photo to enlarge Condemned Texas inmate Raphael Holiday is photographed Oct. 28, 2015, during an interview outside death row at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit near...
View ArticleTexas man set to die for fire that killed 3 children
Click photo to enlarge Condemned Texas inmate Raphael Holiday is photographed Oct. 28, 2015, during an interview outside death row at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit near...
View ArticleTexas to execute man convicted of killing three children in house fire
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas plans on Wednesday to execute Raphael Holiday, 36, who was convicted of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a mobile home blaze in 2000....
View ArticleTexas judge halts execution of man convicted of killing three children
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a 36-year-old man, hours before he was due to be put to death by lethal injection for killing his daughter and two...
View ArticleTexas inmate executed for starting fire that killed 3 despite temporary halt
A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago. ......
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A Texas inmate has been executed for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago. ......
View ArticleTexas puts to death 13th inmate this year
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — A man convicted of setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an eastern Texas home 15 years ago was put to death on Wednesday. Raphael...
View ArticleTexas man executed for fire that killed 3 children
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The latest on the Wednesday execution of Texas inmate Raphael Holiday (all times local): 8:30 p.m. A Texas inmate has been executed for setting a fire that killed his...
View ArticleTexas executes triple child killer
Texas executed Wednesday a death-row inmate who killed three children in a fire at their home, the youngest of whom was his baby daughter aged just one....
View ArticleTexas executes man for killing 3 kids
Texas executed a 36-year-old man convicted of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a mobile home blaze in 2000. ......
View ArticleTexas court voids reprieve; inmate’s execution set for tonight
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A Texas inmate appeared headed toward execution Wednesday night for the fire deaths of three young girls after a state appeals court voided a lower court judge’s order that...
View ArticleTexas court voids reprieve; inmate’s execution back on
A Texas inmate appeared headed toward execution Wednesday night for the fire deaths of three young girls after a state appeals court voided a lower court judge’s order that gave him a reprieve earlier...
View ArticleTexas executes man for killing 3 children
RAPHAEL Holiday has been put to death by lethal injection at Texas' death chamber for the killing of his daughter and two stepdaughters. ......
View ArticleMan executed for killing children in house fire
Texas has executed a 36-year-old man convicted of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a mobile home blaze in 2000. Raphael Holiday was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death...
View ArticleRaphael Holiday Executed In Texas For Killing Three Children — He Is State’s...
Texas prisoner Raphael Holiday was executed on Wednesday for killing three children. The prisoner had set fire to a mobile home, trapping his daughter and two stepdaughters inside. Texas executed...
View ArticleTexas executes man for killing 3 children in house fire
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas on Wednesday executed a 36-year-old man convicted of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a mobile home blaze in 2000. Raphael Holiday was put to death by lethal...
View ArticleTexas executes Raphael Holiday over fire that killed three children
Appeals fail to halt 13th lethal injection of the year in state that puts more prisoners to death than anywhere else in the US...
View ArticleMan convicted of rape, murder in Alabama set to be executed
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court on Monday set a Jan. 21 execution date for a man convicted of raping and murdering a woman more than 20 years...
View ArticleMan charged with murder in East Texas camp killings
According to a previous warrant, the 33-year-old suspect was drinking with the group Saturday when he accompanied four of them into surrounding woods. The warrant says the lone survivor, Cynthia...
View ArticleJudge orders Arkansas to disclose execution drugs
By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - A state judge on Thursday ordered Arkansas to disclose by noon Friday the drugs it plans to use to execute inmates by lethal injection, as well as the...
View ArticleTexas man executed for setting fire that killed 3 children
A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and her two young half-sisters at an East Texas home 15 years ago. Raphael Holiday, 36, became the 13th...
View ArticleFlorida Gov. Rick Scott orders execution for Glades County man convicted of...
Gov. Rick Scott on Monday ordered the execution of a man convicted in two 1983 killings. Michael Ray Lambrix, 55, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Feb. 11, 2016, at the Florida...
View ArticleThe Latest: Order to release execution drug source on hold
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The latest on the ongoing legal battle over an Arkansas law that keeps information about the supply of execution drugs secret (all times local): 11:05 a.m. The Arkansas Supreme...
View ArticleAlabama inmate asks judge to stay January execution date
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate has asked a federal judge to postpone his January execution while he and other inmates challenge the state's lethal injection method. A lawyer for...
View ArticleArkansas Supreme Court halts decision on disclosure of execution drugs
LITTLE ROCK (Reuters) - The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday put on hold a decision a day earlier by a lower court judge who ordered the state to...
View ArticleOklahoma prison chief who served during troubled execution steps down
By Jon Herskovitz (Reuters) - Oklahoma's Department of Corrections director resigned on Friday after a term in office in which troubles in the state's death chamber led to a halt in executions and...
View ArticleWhy Texas county known for death sentences has given none in 2015
As the state prepares to execute its 13th person this year on Wednesday, the case of Harris County, where 124 offenders have been executed, reflects shift among juries and prosecutors in opting for...
View ArticleThe Latest on Ga. execution: High court denies stay request
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) -- The latest on a death row inmate scheduled to die Tuesday in Georgia (all times local): 11:05 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution sought by a Georgia man...
View ArticleGeorgia executes Brian Keith Terrell for killing his mother's friend
Prisoner put to death by lethal injection despite his lawyers arguing there was no physical evidence connecting him to the 1992 murder...
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