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'We will play hardball on this issue' | Texas GOP lawmakers push for passage of bail reform package
"We will play hardball on this issue," Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said during a news conference. At the event, Patrick and other GOP lawmakers were joined by crime victims and victim advocates. "Whatever it takes we will not leave here until these bills passed the House,
Bail organizations, immigrants targeted as Texas lawmakers consider bail reform legislation
Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at tightening rules on who gets bail and how it's set.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calls on House to pass bail reform package
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday called on the Texas House to pass a series of bills designed to reform the state's bail system for violent offenders.
Senate Committee on Criminal Justice hearing about bail reform in Texas, see photos
Senate Committee on Criminal Justice discuss bail reform during hearing at Texas Capitol. Recent court orders slowing down or indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s policy blitz have raised the specter that the executive branch might openly flout the federal judiciary and prompted questions about how judges would respond.
‘The people of Texas deserve this’: Senate discusses bail reform proposals
Texas lawmakers are discussing five proposed bail reforms, including one to prevent undocumented defendants from posting bail for felony charges, and another to give judges discretion to hold
Texas lawmakers discuss bail reform package
State lawmakers are moving forward on legislation to keep violent undocumented immigrants in jail. That's just one piece of the bail reform package.
Texas to execute man for 2004 murders of strip club manager and friend
Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...
Denying bail? Why a Texas Senate panel approved reform plan to keep some defendants in jail
Opponents of the bail reform package say the proposed changes are based on false pretenses and could unjustly keep innocent ...
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Certain criminal suspects would be denied bail under changes OK'd by Texas Senate panel
The package of bills would tighten the state's bail laws to keep more people in jail — including undocumented immigrants — ...
Man in US illegally wanted for allegedly groping 7-year-old Texas girl on her way home from school
A man wanted for touching a 7-year-old girl in Texas was previously investigated for several sexual assaults of young girls, police said.
A Texas man is executed for the killing of a pastor during a robbery at a church
A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
Texas executes man convicted in 2011 murder of Arlington pastor
Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...
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For UNT criminal justice students — and their classmates at a correctional facility — education is an equalizer
It’s not the most typical classroom, but University of North Texas criminal justice students said that sharing a class with ...
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Texas Proceeds with First Execution of the Year Amid Capital Punishment Debate
Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.