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The Texas Seven

Author : Carlie Lawson
Publisher : Mason Crest Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781422247297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Texas Seven written by Carlie Lawson and published by Mason Crest Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Seven were an infamous group of convicted prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security prison near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000. Over a month later, six of the seven were apprehended between January 21 and 23, 2001. Their capture was as a result of an appeal to the public during the television show America's Most Wanted. However, one of them committed suicide before he could be arrested. The other six escapees were all convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of police officer Aubrey Wright Hawkins, who had been murdered when responding to a robbery perpetrated by the Texas Seven. Infamous Jailbreaks is a captivating series providing an intriguing insight into the world of crime. Filled with fascinating case studies of the most notable jailbreaks in the last 100 years, this set of titles documents the background to each event, the crime itself, the escape, and the consequences. Each volume includes additional information in the form of sidebars to complement the main text. Furthermore, readers can scan QR codes to watch videos that will draw the reader into further study.

The Texas 7

Author : Gary C. King
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429926082
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Texas 7 written by Gary C. King and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2001-04-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You haven't heard the last of us yet..." These were chilling words on a note left behind by seven armed and dangerous inmates who escaped from the John Connally prison in South Texas on December 13, 2000. Their promise has apparently been fulfilled. The inmates, now known as the Connally Seven, are suspected of having first robbed a Radio Shack in Houston, and then, days later, on Christmas Eve, of having fatally shot and runover a young police officer during an assault on a Dallas sporting-goods store. For six frantic weeks, a massive manhunt with a significant reward had only turned up dead ends...until a tip came in from someone who had seen the gang on Fox-TVs "America's Most Wanted." Authorities arrested four of the seven prisoners, including suspected ringleader George Rivas, in Woodland Park, Colorado, and a fifth inmate shot himself during police negotiations. Immediately intensifying the search for the last two heavily armed and dangerous prisoners, police and FBI closed in on them at a Holiday Inn in Colorado Springs just two days following the previous arrest. After five hours and a telephone interview with a TV news station in which they expressed their feeling that the breakout was a statement against Texas's judicial system, the two inmates surrendered themselves, putting an end to a long and frightening episode. The Texas 7 goes behind the scenes to give you a detailed, fascinating account of the events leading up to and after their brazen prison escape--and the exciting chase that ultimately led to their capture.

A Cry in the Wilderness

Author : Joseph Garcia
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781432701680
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Cry in the Wilderness written by Joseph Garcia and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO COULD FORGET THE MOST INFAMOUS MANHUNT IN HISTORY? The Texas Seven shot and killed Police Officer Aubrey Hawkins on December 26, 2000, during their prison break from Connally Maximum Security, near San Antonio, Texas. Among them were charismatic leader George Rivas, Larry Harper, Keith Newbury, Patrick Murphy, Joseph Garcia, Michael Rodriguez and young Randy Halprin, tagged by the media as The Texas Seven. A van waited for them near the prison and their cross-country flight began. The search for The Texas Seven spanned over six weeks and was said to be the largest manhunt in U.S. history involving the FBI, ATF and U.S. Marshall and captured round-the-clock media attention. These are the raw confessions of Texas Seven 's Joseph Garcia, of sins he has committed and sins committed against him from the time he was born. The finished product is a street-smart, hear-breaking rhapsody that could only have been written by the one who suffered all these things: Joseph Christopher Garcia.

A Cry In The Wilderness

Author : Joseph Garcia
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781466363663
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book A Cry In The Wilderness written by Joseph Garcia and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO COULD FORGET THE MOST INFAMOUS FUGITIVE MANHUNT IN U.S. HISTORY?! TEXAS SEVEN'S JOSEPH GARCIA TELLS ALL FROM DEATH ROW. On December 13, 2000, seven prisoners escaped from Connally Maximum near San Antonio, Texas. Among them were charismatic leader, George Rivas, right-hand man Larry Harper, Keith Newbury, Patrick Murphy, Joseph Garcia, and young Randy Halprin; tagged by the media as 'The Texas Seven'. They jumped into a van waiting nearby and their cross-country plight began. The search for the Texas Seven spanned over six weeks and was said to be the largest manhunt in U.S. history involving the FBI, ATF and U.S. Marshall, capturing round-the-clock media attention. Along the way, The Texas Seven shot and killed Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins. These are the raw confessions of Texas Seven's Joseph Garcia, of sins he committed and sins committed against him since the time he was born. Join co-writer, Selma Kerren, as she accompanies Garcia on his epic journey of truth. Garcia's style is raw and humorous, with the rarest ability to take readers through an intense range of emotions, as his story becomes darker with every turn of the page. Selma Kerren is an Orange County, California, writer. Contacted by Garcia in 2001, Kerren took on the project believing Garcia's story to have a profound, social message. The result is a street-smart, heart-breaking rhapsody.

Seven Days to Hell

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 078603808X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Seven Days to Hell written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Texas sheriff joins forces with legendary desperado Cullen Baker in a fight against a land-grabbing baron in this historical Western adventure. Lawman Sam Heller is busy enough keeping the peace in Hangtree, Texas. But when he saves the life of a gunslinger on the trail from East Texas, the young man makes an audacious request—that Heller trek with him back across a desert held by brutal outlaws to save one more. Bill made the journey to Hangtree to get help for a friend—quick-draw artist Cullen Baker—who’s fighting to save the Torrent River from a robber baron. Baker’s old pal Johnny Cross has agreed to lend a bullet or two, and with Sam Heller at their side, the odds are even better. When the ammo’s loaded and the triggers are cocked, the Torrent will flow red with blood . . .

Texas Blood

Author : Roger D. Hodge
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961419
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Texas Blood written by Roger D. Hodge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph.

Seven Keys to Texas

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497603781
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Seven Keys to Texas written by T. R. Fehrenbach and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans explores the state’s unique mindset and culture. Author T. R. Fehrenbach defines Texas as “a state of mind.” In The Seven Keys to Texas, he provides us with a seven-part framework for understanding this unique and ever-important state: its people, frontiers, land, economy, society, politics, and the change that has taken place and continues as Texas grows and develops. A must read for those who want to better understand Texas or create a vision for its future.

Texas death row

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034886
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Texas death row written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Light and his camera were permitted unparalleled access to Texas death row. His stark, powerful images show where and how the condemned live. In the year he took these pictures, fourteen men were executed in Texas. Suzanne Donovan's essay draws upon her interviews with the condemned men and with prison authorities, family members, and members of victims' families. Whoever opens this book will want to look away, for the pictures and words force us to gaze intimately into the eye of death. Light's photographs make us ask what we have done in sanctioning execution. With ninety percent approval, no other place in America has approved the death sentence so overwhelmingly as Texas. Ken Light's raw, austere photographs and the accompanying text reveal what we have created in the hopeless world of court-ordered death. Who are the men who exist there? What do they look like? How do they survive, and what are the rhythms of their daily lives? While outsiders focus on the final act of execution, the real drama unfolds each day in this arcane world.

Finding Anything about Everything in Texas

Author : Edward M. Walters
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589791992
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Finding Anything about Everything in Texas written by Edward M. Walters and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crash course in locating information about the Lone Star State. Each chapter begins with an engaging, little known, even quirky story and then shows the reader how to follow the printed and electronic trail to uncover more detail.

Bloomin' Tales

Author : Cherie Foster Colburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936474189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Bloomin' Tales written by Cherie Foster Colburn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven tales from Texas reveal the stories behind wildflowers as they were told by Native Americans, Mexicans, or European settlers. Includes "fun facts" about each flower and notes on the stories.

Once Upon a Texas

Author : I. E. Clark
Publisher : I. E. Clark Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780886802387
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Texas written by I. E. Clark and published by I. E. Clark Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Let the Lord Sort Them

Author : Maurice Chammah
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1524760277
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Let the Lord Sort Them written by Maurice Chammah and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Then, amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform, came the death penalty’s decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. In Let the Lord Sort Them, Maurice Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. We meet Elsa Alcala, the orphaned daughter of a Mexican American family who found her calling as a prosecutor in the nation’s death penalty capital, before becoming a judge on the state’s highest court. We meet Danalynn Recer, a lawyer who became obsessively devoted to unearthing the life stories of men who committed terrible crimes, and fought for mercy in courtrooms across the state. We meet death row prisoners—many of them once-famous figures like Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Graham, and Karla Faye Tucker—along with their families and the families of their victims. And we meet the executioners, who struggle openly with what society has asked them to do. In tracing these interconnected lives against the rise of mass incarceration in Texas and the country as a whole, Chammah explores what the persistence of the death penalty tells us about forgiveness and retribution, fairness and justice, history and myth. Written with intimacy and grace, Let the Lord Sort Them is the definitive portrait of a particularly American institution.

Seven Choices

Author : Elizabeth Harper Neeld
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 044655538X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Seven Choices written by Elizabeth Harper Neeld and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring, profound, intimate, and moving, this updated edition of the classic self-help book brings solace, hope, and advice to anyone who has suffered loss. Everyone experiences grief, but few books offer real help with the debilitating emotions of bereavement. Now, an internationally respected authority on personal change maps the terrain between life as it was and life as it can be. Readers can move at their own pace through the seven distinct phases of loss and can work towards a stronger, more balanced self. The author's own story of the loss of a young husband, combined with the tales of dozens of individuals, and the most recent research on coping with loss, helps readers to become happier, healthier, and wiser beings.

Worse Than Death

Author : Gary M. Lavergne
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411675
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Worse Than Death written by Gary M. Lavergne and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the case of a Moroccan national who gunned down seven people in a Texas nightclub in 1984 led to the development of Texas's multiple murder statute.

The Seventh Victim

Author : Mary T. Burton
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420125052
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Seventh Victim written by Mary T. Burton and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lara Church, the only survivor of the Seattle Strangler, who disappeared seven years ago, finds her chance at a normal life shattered when Texas Ranger James Beck informs her that the Strangler is back and determined to kill her.

Texas Gulag

Author : Gary Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1556229313
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Texas Gulag written by Gary Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in the inmate's own words how they worked and died in incredibly inhumane conditions.

The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions

Author : Jacinto Quirarte
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292787820
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions written by Jacinto Quirarte and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six remaining Texas missions—San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad. Using church records and other historical accounts, as well as old photographs, drawings, and paintings, Quirarte describes the mission churches and related buildings, their decorated surfaces, and the (now missing) altarpieces, whose iconography he extensively analyzes. He sets his material within the context of the mission era in Texas and the Southwest, so that the book also serves as a general introduction to the Spanish missionary program and to Indian life in Texas.