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

In stunning move, Texas Supreme Court halts Robert Roberson execution in 'shaken baby' case If the appeals courts finds problems, the association says, the case is typically sent back to the trial ...

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 ...

GARLAND, Texas — Death row inmate Matthew Johnson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening for killing a woman he set on ...

A Democrat, Dan Morales, was the Texas attorney general when Wood's death penalty case went to trial in 1992. Wood's execution has languished in the state's court system during John Cornyn ...

The owner of a Texas mortuary faces charges after authorities allege she conducted "experiments" on corpses and tampered with death certificates.

A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction delaying the execution of a death row inmate ... ruled that he would be allowed to testify in his case next week. Mangrum agreed and granted a ...

Before Rogers’ death, the most recent U.S. execution was in Florida and took place May 1, when Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, died ...

Matthew Lee Johnson was executed by lethal injection for the 2012 death of 76-year-old Nancy Harris, who was splashed with ...

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.