Texas jury to get smuggling deaths trial
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A jury that has heard four weeks of sometimes emotionally wrenching testimony from survivors of the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt will soon get the case &#151; without hearing directly from the defendant himself.
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By JEFF CARLTON  DALLAS - The Innocence Project of Texas will review the cases of 354 inmates who have requested DNA testing in an effort to be exonerated, the Dallas County district attorney announced Friday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man was put to death  by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing an elderly Houston  couple in a 1992 robbery.
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Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the trial of McKenzie Mattingly, a former narcotics detective charged with murder in the shooting of 19-year-old Michael Newby outside a liquor store.
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By Cindy George, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 13--A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deliberated for more than a week and failed to reach a unanimous verdict about whether Harris County is responsible for the 2004 death of a man shot by a sheriff's deputy.
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A judge in the nation's deadliest human-smuggling attempt said she will tell jurors that prosecutors ignored her order to show why they are seeking the death penalty for the man accused of driving and abandoning the tractor-trailer.
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A court is expected to deliver its verdict on the killing of four associates of the country's first president Mujibur Rahman.
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Two men were convicted on Thursday for their roles in the United States&#39; deadliest immigrant smuggling case and could face life in prison for contributing to the deaths of 19 people.
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By Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 2--The first jury trial in a Dallas Cowboys stadium eminent-domain case is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the appeal of a Mexican national on death row in Texas, stepping into an international debate over the legal rights of foreigners in capital punishment cases.
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Jurors in Robert Blake's murder trial on Thursday saw the places he and his wife had been the night she was killed, including the restaurant booth where the actor says he went to retrieve his gun at the time Bonny Lee Bakley was shot.
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If the experience of those involved in past death penalty cases is any guide, the jurors in Scott Peterson's murder trial will have to grapple with raw and deep religious, moral and legal issues as they decide whether he lives or dies.
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A Spanish jury considers the case against a County Antrim man accused of killing a prostitute on a holiday island.
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The jury in the Suffolk murder trial are to visit some of the areas connected with the case.
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The Supreme Court considered Monday whether an almost all-white Texas jury unfairly convicted and sentenced a black man to death, the latest in a string of capital cases to reach the court from the state that executes more people than any other.
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A jury began  deliberating on Friday the fate of a couple accused of  negligent homicide in the flooding deaths of 35 elderly people  at their Louisiana nursing home during Hurricane Katrina.
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A federal appeals court has delayed the trial of a black man charged in the nation's deadliest human-smuggling attempt so it can rule on allegations of racial bias.