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Jun 02, 2025

Texas Death Row Prisoner Seeks New Trial, Citing Conviction Based on Flawed Hypnosis Evidence

Charles Flores (pic­tured) was con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death in 1999 for the 1998 rob­bery and mur­der of Elizabeth​“Betty” Black in her Texas home. Mr. Flores was con­vict­ed because of the tes­ti­mo­ny of Jill Barganier, the victim’s neigh­bor, who only iden­ti­fied Mr. Flores after being hyp­no­tized by police. No DNA or phys­i­cal evi­dence con­nects Mr. Flores to the crime. Attorneys for Mr. Flores argue that he should be grant­ed a new tri­al because of changes in the…

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Aug 15, 2022

Texas Executes Man Whose Conviction Relied on Discredited Forensics

Texas on August 17, 2022 exe­cut­ed Kosoul Chanthakoummane (pic­tured), whose con­vic­tion pros­e­cu­tors obtained with dis­cred­it­ed foren­sic tes­ti­mo­ny. He was the sec­ond defen­dant of col­or in less than a month to be put to death over the objec­tion of the…