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365 Days of Texas True Crime: Nettie Part 2 18 months after Velma Nesset was murdered and left under a drainage culvert as she walked to work a 22 year-old man was arrested and charged with her murder. Johnny Ray Foote had worked with Nesset at the mall for just a month and he happened to live in the same apartment complex as she did. When police brought him in for questioning they were able to obtain a confession, but was that confession coerced? 244th Judicial District Judge Joe Connally didn't seem to think so based on the evidence that was presented to him at the time. Defense attorney Jo...

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A state appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of a Royse City woman, who received the maximum punishment in connection with the shooting death of her husband.

Courtesy Hunt County Detention Center A state appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of a Royse City woman, who received the maximum punishment in connection with the shooting death of her husband. A jury in the 354th District Court sentenced Chacey Poynter to life in prison In June 2019 after finding her guilty in the death of her husband, Robert Louis Poynter III, a University Park Fire Department captain. The Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas considered arguments in the case in April. Attorney Jessica McDonald, representing Poynter on the appeal, ...

HOUSTON (AP) — While officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are blaming miscommunication for preventing reporters from witnessing the state’s first execution in nearly a year, legal and death penalty experts worry it's another example of what they see as a lack of transparency and competency in how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S. Two reporters, including one with The Associated Press, had been set to witness Wednesday’s execution of Quintin Jones at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. But they were not escorted into a viewing room adjacent to the...