It could be a year or more before the new trial of “Texas 7" inmate Randy Halprin gets underway. That’s because the Dallas ...

Matthew Johnson, who testified he did not intend to kill the elderly clerk, received the death penalty in 2013. The execution is Texas’ fourth and may be the last for 2025.

The state’s highest criminal court ruled in another case that the science had changed. By J. David Goodman Reporting from Houston Texas is preparing for the execution this week of an autistic ...

which last year declined to review his case. His best chance now lies with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a pro-death-penalty Republican who has only once used his executive powers to stop an execution.

Kelly, who took office in January 2021, and McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens, who took office in January 2023, ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered his thoughts about the hit-and-run jet ski crash that killed 18-year-old kayaker Ava Moore at ...

Frustration grows for the mother of one of the victims found in a Northeast El Paso desert as the man convicted in the slayings avoided execution.

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, whose bodies were found strangled and raped in a Northeast El Paso desert. Wood is ...

Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial evidence. He's set for execution March 13.