Texas has scheduled four executions in 2026 for inmates on death row. HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Four convicted criminals in the ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson's execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his case back to trial court. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Charles Don Flores on Texas Death Row in 2021. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied Flores' appeal challenging his death sentence for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. Texas’ highest criminal court has ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --The United States executed two death row inmates on Thursday evening -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a year that has seen an uptick in inmates being put to death.

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

A Texas man faces execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an "exorcism" to expel a demon from the child's body.

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

Nanon Williams, who has been in prison since his arrest after the killing of Adonius Collier in 1992, is speaking out about his friendship with Rob Reiner and Michele Singer, who attended his one-man ...

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