Kent Whitaker feels "a great sense of relief" after the Texas Gov. Greg Abbott commuted the death sentence of his son The father of the man whose execution was commuted just before he was ...

A Texas inmate was spared by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday. Thomas “Bart” Whitaker's sentence was commuted to life in ...

Whitaker's father, Kent, also was shot but survived and has led the effort to save his 38-year-old son from execution. The seven-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose members are ...

Bart Whitaker was convicted in 2007 of murdering his brother, mother. — -- The governor of Texas decided today to spare the life of a convicted killer who carried out a plot to kill his ...

Reporting from Sugar Land, Texas — In a week, Thomas “Bart” Whitaker, 38, is scheduled to be executed for plotting a 2003 attack that left his mother and brother dead and almost killed his ...

A convicted killer’s execution Thursday was overturned shortly before he was scheduled for lethal injection when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted him clemency. Thomas “Bart” Whitaker ...

Whitaker, now remarried, made one last plea to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole in February 2018. "We're not asking them to forgive him or let him go. We just want them to let him live ...

Abbott's decision, announced just a half-hour before Thomas "Bart" Whitaker was set to receive a lethal injection, is only the third time in four decades that a Texas governor has granted clemency ...

Texas Governor Gregg Abbott ruled that Thomas "Bart" Whitaker should instead spend the rest of life in jail for masterminding the murders of his mother Tricia, 51, and brother Kevin, 19 ...

Kent Whitaker embraces his wife Tanya as his brother Keith Whitaker waits in support at back right, after reacting to the his lawyer Keith Hampton reading an email from the Texas Board of Pardons ...

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- About 40 minutes before Bart Whitaker was scheduled to be executed, the governor spoke. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has chosen to commute the execution of the Sugar Land man ...