Alex Hannaford

Alex Hannaford

  • Will Swearingen Be Allowed DNA Test Before Execution Date?

    Larry Swearingen's case has been taken on by the Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people. And in a motion filed today, the group’s lawyers have asked District Judge Kelly Case to allow post-conviction DNA testing in order to prove Swearingen’s innocence. Full Story
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    Heritage of Abuse

    A Texas Observer investigation has found allegations of child sex abuse involving at least six members of the Homestead Heritage community. Three members have been convicted of sexually assaulting minors. Full Story
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    Is Larry Swearingen Innocent?

    Nine forensic experts say Swearingen is on death row for a murder he couldn’t have committed, yet Texas courts won’t grant a new trial. Full Story
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    Highway Injustice

    The picture shown to the jurors was enough to haunt them for a lifetime: a young girl with jet-black hair and pale skin, staring at the camera, her hands held up like she’s fending off an attacker. Sometime after the photo was taken, 14-year-old Regina Walters, a runaway from Pasadena, Texas, was strangled with baling wire and her body abandoned in that same barn. Full Story

  • A ‘Black Gold’ Rush in Cotulla

    Ralph Ayala pulls up to the Brush Country Museum, parks his truck, and hops out, leaving the engine running. It’s 100 degrees outside and [...] Full Story