News for the Panhandle from ProNews 7
Latest news from around the Texas Panhandle, the State of Texas and the Nation/World
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Friday, September 24, 2010
The Innocence Project has asked a Texas court to "restore the reputation" of a man it claims was wrongly convicted and executed for killing his three children in a house fire.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Former Texas Governor Mark White said today that he thinks it is time to rethink using the death penalty, because it is no longer a threat to would-be murderers.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Innocence Project of Texas said Friday that scent identification lineups, in which trained dogs determine if a suspect's smell matches the smell of crime scene evidence, are based on faulty science and have led to a number of wrongful convictions.
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
A state district judge is expected to formally clear a man who died in prison 13 years into a 25-year sentence for a rape he did not commit, making him the first posthumous DNA exoneration in Texas history.
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