SMITH COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - A man on death row for a brutal Smith County murder says the electric shock he received during trial violated his constitutional rights. James Calvert was convicted in 2015 ...
An appeals court has ordered a new trial for a convicted sex offender after a judge in Texas ordered a bailiff to shock him three times with a 50,000-volt belt for being uncooperative in court. The ...
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - State prosecutors have filed a long-awaited response to convicted murderer James Calvert's appeal filed in October 2017. The 286-page document filed with the Court of Criminal ...
TEXARKANA, Texas (Reuters) - A potential death penalty trial in East Texas is set to resume on Monday after it was put on hold when a judge was said by a TV station to have had a shock belt used on ...