The DPI race featured incumbent Jill Underly and GOP-backed education consultant Brittany Kinser. The controversial overhaul of state testing benchmarks featured prominently in the race.

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Moises Mendoza is facing execution after being convicted of killing a woman and later burning her body in the small town of Farmersville outside of Dallas in 2004.