Talk:Robert Dale Rowell

Article issues including notability

 * The are notability issues with this subject. A career criminal that killed at least two people, with what appears to be a lost timeline, was executed. The article, that can not be cleared up by any of the non-cited sources, seems to omit how a person convicted in 1980 to 30 years + 30 years +30 years, concurrent for a robbery spree of two stores and a restaurant, + 8 years (voluntary manslaughter in jail)= 38 years, that did not escape nor apparently paroled, can commit murder in 1993.
 * There is controversy concerning the sites used that supposedly back up article content. prodeathpenalty.com gives this information:


 * "Rowell started shooting with a 25 caliber pistol striking all three victims, killing Wright and Raymond David Mata.".
 * "UPDATE: Tuesday night Robert Rowell, 50, was executed for fatally shooting three people at a Houston crack house. A third person was wounded and left paralyzed.".
 * texas attorneygeneral.gov states:


 * "Mata died from a gunshot wound, but he had also been struck on the back of his head with a hammer-type instrument. Wright and Perez survived.".
 * clarkprosecutor.org has the exact same info as the Attorney general site and the statistics also are:


 * 51st murderer executed in U.S. in 2005
 * 995th murderer executed in U.S. since 1976
 * 18th murderer executed in Texas in 2005
 * 354th murderer executed in Texas since 1976


 * It is more-than-likely the Texas Attorney General site is the more reliable but the Plainview Daily Herald, published with the title Killer in crack house shooting executed, by Michael Graczyk: Published 2005-11-14, gives the following: "A 1980 robbery spree that included a shootout with a Houston police officer at a restaurant ended with his arrest while he hid under a car in a parking lot and got him a 30-year sentence. Two years later, prison records show he fatally stabbed a fellow inmate at the Ramsey I prison in Brazoria County, earning him a manslaughter conviction and another eight-year prison term. In June 1991, however, he was released under mandatory supervision only to be arrested two years later for the crack house shootings."
 * Rowell v. Dretke states:


 * "Rowell was convicted and sentenced to death in April 1994 for the capital offense of murdering Raymond David Mata while in the course of committing or attempting to commit robbery.".


 * This gives some incite on the subject being released, and there is the trivia about the man that was paralyzed, but I can not find enough notability, other than the one thing, to warrant inclusion on Wikipedia. Otr500 (talk) 07:25, 10 May 2017 (UTC)