The Times has a 672-word, 14-paragraph news story on the front of its home page about the delay of an execution that had been scheduled for a Texas inmate, Robert James Campbell. Nowhere in the news article does it say what crime he committed.
A reader-participant-watchdog-content co-creator-community member writes of what he calls an "amazing...new approach to capital punishment stories -- obscuring or ignoring the reason for their death sentence. Take a look at the story ... Was it a brutal murder? A parking ticket? I give up."
Maybe it was insider trading?
An Associated Press article running at the Fox News site explains that Campbell had killed a 20-year-old Houston bank teller:
Campbell was convicted of capital murder for the 1991 slaying of Alexandra Rendon, who was abducted while putting gas into her car, robbed, raped and shot.
"This was not a shoot and rob and run away," Rendon's cousin, Israel Santana, said. "The agony she had to go through."
Rendon, who had been making wedding plans, was buried wearing her recently purchased wedding dress.
Maybe the Times will update its article, but at the moment, none of that information is in it. Update: The Times did eventually update the story to include the sentence, "Mr. Campbell was convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of Alexandra Rendon in 1991."