A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely ...

Texas is set to carry out its first execution of the year Wednesday.

Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for ...

A state district court judge ruled in favor of El Paso and Travis counties criminal justice leaders, issuing a temporary injunction stopping the Texas attorney general from forcing prosecutors to turn ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Sandra Bland was arrested in Texas in 2015 and found dead in her jail cell days later. Now, lawmakers are introducing the Sandra Bland Act in honor of the Chicago area native. Its ...

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Perry signs executive order creating state Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center, basically reconstituting Texas’ Criminal Justice Policy Council, which he axed back in 2003 Flimsy distinctions ...

Texas carried out the nation’s first execution of the year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a 1998 double murder.

In late April, during a Capitol press conference in advance of a daylong meeting of stakeholders – cops, judges, lawmakers, professors of law, and exonerees – for a forum on wrongful convictions, ...

A Nueces County jury acquitted former Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales on all charges, ending the first criminal ...