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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The 2004 execution of a Texas man found guilty of killing his children in a fire could have been avoided with updated forensic evidence, his cousin claims.
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A cousin of a man executed in 2004 pleaded Thursday with the Texas Forensic Science Commission to rule on whether the man was betrayed by shoddy science.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Prosecutors asked a Texas judge Wednesday to recuse himself from the court of inquiry into whether the state executed an innocent man.
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The Texas Fire Marshal's Office maintains that a man executed for murdering his children deliberately set the fire that killed them.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Anti-execution activists say the state of Texas must end its death penalty practices.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry has never called off an execution based on a claim of innocence and has only once delayed an execution in such cases, documents indicate.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he has replaced another member of the state board investigating allegations an innocent man was executed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry says the 2004 execution of a man for killing his daughters in a house fire was justified despite disputes over evidence of arson.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Fire investigators used faulty reasoning and concluded wrongly that a Texas man committed an arson for which he was executed, a state-funded analysis found.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 3 (UPI) -- A petition has been filed in Austin, Texas, for a re-examination of evidence in a 15-year-old arson to determine if an innocent man was executed.
