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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid 'evolving standards of decency'
At the turn of the century in 2000, the population on Texas’ death row reached a record high ... murder trials of three men who dragged James Byrd Jr., a Black man, for 3 miles and left his ...