FedEx Driver Admits Killing Child After Delivery
Tanner Horner, a FedEx driver, admitted to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand in Texas after a delivery. Jurors will decide his sentence.
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A FedEx driver admitted to killing a 7-year-old girl after a delivery. The jury will now decide his sentence.
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Texas’ highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson’s execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his capital murder conviction back to trial court.
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State prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty against Channel Yonko, a Houston woman charged with capital murder in connection with the death of her infant daughter.
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A Harris County man accused of murdering his parents was being held in jail Monday on a $4 million bond.
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Christopher Leman Jr., 47, was charged with capital murder Friday in the July deaths of his parents at their Crosby home. Police found the victims while conducting a welfare check requested by Leman's out-of-state brother.
A Texas prisoner has pleaded guilty to killing a 27-year-old correctional officer from the Houston area in 2023.
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Jovian Motley, 27, died during a tussle inside of a prison cell in the Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, about 20 miles north of Huntsville. It happened while five officers worked to restrain Jabari Lewis, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to Motley's murder.
A Harris County jury on Friday issued a death sentence to Oscar Rosales, who killed Harris County Precinct 5 Cpl. Charles Galloway during a traffic stop in 2022.
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Rosales, 55, was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of Harris County Precinct 5 Cpl. Charles Galloway during a traffic stop. He is the second man in less than two months to receive the death penalty in Harris County.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire waded into the debate over bond as the issue has become a central point of contention in elections of judges to local criminal courts — as well as the subject of a potential amendment to the Texas Constitution.
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Whitmire waded into the debate over bond as the issue has become a central point of contention in elections of judges to local criminal courts — as well as the subject of a potential constitutional amendment that Texas voters could decide on in November.
Minutes into a Monday jury trial to determine Xavier Davis' role in the 2021 slaying of a Houston family of three, the 32-year-old man pleaded guilty to capital murder charges ahead of opening statements in the case.
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Davis pleaded guilty to shooting and killing 35-year-old Gregory Carhee, 29-year-old Donyavia Lagway and their daughter, 6-year-old Harmony Carhee. Also facing capital murder charges in the case is Alexus Williams, who is accused of hatching a plan to kill the family and hiring Davis to commit the killings.
Prosecutors with the Galveston County District Attorney's Office have not yet made a decision on whether to seek the death penalty against Channel Yonko, a Houston woman charged with capital murder in the death of her infant daughter.
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A probable cause affidavit asserts that the infant, 17-month-old Hannah Yonko, could be seen on video falling to the ground from the third-floor balcony of the Beachfront Palms Hotel in Galveston on Oct. 23.
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