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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison. "I remember thinking: We're really going to do this. This is really...

When the Dallas police found Erbie Bowser on an August evening in 2013, he was face-down on the floor reciting his name, rank, and serial number like a military prisoner of war. “I’m in here, this floor’s been cleared—this floor’s been cleared,” Bowser...

States and localities owe far, far more than their citizens know. Maria Pappas, the treasurer of Cook County, Illinois, got tired of being asked why local taxes kept rising. Betting that the answer involved the debt that state and local governments...

Getty Images It’s been 148 days since Texas executed someone—a remarkable lull in the use of the death penalty for a state that has killed far more people than any other. In the nearly five months since Pablo Vasquez was killed by lethal injection...

Feb 11, 2017 by Selwyn Duke The Supreme Court’s same-sex “marriage” opinion in 2015 struck a blow against states’ powers. Now Texas is striking back, challenging the limits of that unconstitutional decision. The Los Angeles Times reported on the story...