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Sep 28, 2017 · Argument: January 17, 2018. Decided: May 14, 2018. In a 6-3 ruling with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing for the majority, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Louisiana death-row prisoner Robert McCoy (pictured), granting him a new trial and finding counsel’s concession of guilt violated McCoy’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel. In August ...
As of December 20, there are 223 death row inmates, which includes six women.4 This constitutes the smallest Texas death row population since 1987. More than one-third of these individuals were convicted in Harris County.5 Texas has the third-largest death row population in the nation, after California (742) and Florida (344).
Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), is a United States Supreme Court decision about the death penalty and intellectual disability.The court held that contemporary clinical standards determine what an intellectual disability is, and held that even milder forms of intellectual disability may bar a person from being sentenced to death due to the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel ...
- Bobby James Moore, Petitioner v. Texas
- Ginsburg, joined by Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan
Oct 30, 2017 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review the appeals of four condemned inmates in Texas, including a woman on death row for the 2010 slaying of her developmentally disabled baby sitter ...
Heather Leavell-Keaton. In March and June 2010, Leavell-Keaton murdered her common-law husband 's children, three-year-old Chase DeBlase and four-year-old Natalie DeBlase. Prosecutors allege that she put antifreeze in the children's food and choked them both to death. 8 years, 8 months and 22 days.
Information by County 1976 to Present. County of Conviction for Inmates Currently on Death Row. County of Conviction for Executed Inmates. Number of Inmates Sentenced to Death from Each County. Change of Venue Information for Inmates Currently on Death Row. Death Row Information - Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Dec 21, 2018 · More than 72 percent of those on death row in Texas are people of color. Studies show race plays a role in the state's harshest punishment. Welcome to The Texas Tribune's "Texplainer" series ...
