While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals upheld William Reece’s death sentence for the 1997 murder of Tiffany Johnston, rejecting claims his confession was coerced.

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, ...

The fate of Gary Lee Graham, executed at 36 after being convicted as a teen, highlights the complexities of juvenile justice ...

In a significant local bust, Lufkin detectives captured fugitive Kendall Dixon, who faced felony charges of child abuse, ...

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...

If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the right to sue over the state's ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Three families, whose relatives died while in Texas prisons during a summer heat wave, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in US District Court Thursday against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or ...