Nearly 5% of TX Prison Population are Illegals: A report released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) reveals that illegal immigrants represent 4.6% of the state prison population, with standing requests that they be turned over the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) once their sentences are served. Nicole Cobler of the Texas Tribune reports that as of December 2015, the TDCJ recorded 9,158 Texas prisoners as being under ICE detainers, 6,698 of whom were in the U.S. illegally. The most common crime for inmates with ICE detainers is sexual assault against a child, with 69% of those offenders in the country illegally, and the second most common is homicide. Additionally, there are 12 illegal immigrants on death row.
Execution Date Set for OH Murderer: Despite Ohio's continued struggle to obtain the proper lethal injection drugs, the state Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision Friday, set an execution date for a man who murdered a disabled woman in 2004. Jim Provance of the Toledo Blade reports that James P. Frazier is set to be executed on Oct. 17, 2019, joining 24 other Ohio murderers in line for execution, the first of which is set to be carried out in Jan. 2017 once Gov. John Kasich's current death penalty moratorium expires. Ohio's last execution was of Dennis McGuire in Jan. 2014, who reportedly struggled for 26 minutes after being administered a drug combo that was later abandoned. The state has attempted to revert to pentobarbital or sodium thiopental as single drugs, but manufacturers have refused to make them available for executions. Frazier is on death row for the murder of Mary Stevenson, a woman who had cerebral palsy when she was strangled and had her throat slit during a robbery.
Teen Runs Over FL Deputy: A 15-year-old boy deliberately drove into a Florida deputy on Friday as she approached the vehicle he was in to take him into custody on an outstanding warrant. Mike Schneider of the AP reports that Orange County Sheriff's Sgt. Mary Pearce, who has been with the agency for over two decades, suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries to her head, back, hand and foot after the teen ran into her with his vehicle, throwing her onto the hood and then to the pavement before speeding off. The teen, who has a previous arrest for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, now faces an attempted murder charge on a law enforcement officer. He is still at large.
Execution Date Set for OH Murderer: Despite Ohio's continued struggle to obtain the proper lethal injection drugs, the state Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision Friday, set an execution date for a man who murdered a disabled woman in 2004. Jim Provance of the Toledo Blade reports that James P. Frazier is set to be executed on Oct. 17, 2019, joining 24 other Ohio murderers in line for execution, the first of which is set to be carried out in Jan. 2017 once Gov. John Kasich's current death penalty moratorium expires. Ohio's last execution was of Dennis McGuire in Jan. 2014, who reportedly struggled for 26 minutes after being administered a drug combo that was later abandoned. The state has attempted to revert to pentobarbital or sodium thiopental as single drugs, but manufacturers have refused to make them available for executions. Frazier is on death row for the murder of Mary Stevenson, a woman who had cerebral palsy when she was strangled and had her throat slit during a robbery.
Teen Runs Over FL Deputy: A 15-year-old boy deliberately drove into a Florida deputy on Friday as she approached the vehicle he was in to take him into custody on an outstanding warrant. Mike Schneider of the AP reports that Orange County Sheriff's Sgt. Mary Pearce, who has been with the agency for over two decades, suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries to her head, back, hand and foot after the teen ran into her with his vehicle, throwing her onto the hood and then to the pavement before speeding off. The teen, who has a previous arrest for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, now faces an attempted murder charge on a law enforcement officer. He is still at large.
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