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 ...

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 ...

Death row inmate Matthew Johnson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening for killing a woman he set on fire during a ...

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.

A Texas man is facing scheduled execution Tuesday evening, 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set ...

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

Moises Mendoza, sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Rachelle Tolleson, was given a lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for ... I am innocent of this case. I’ll fight it," Wood said in recent documents filed in his appeals.

Attorney General Ken Paxton's office asked a Dallas County judge to set the execution of Charles Don Flores. His attorneys say they're not done trying to prove he was convicted using a debunked ...

The changes suggested to Texas' junk science law come from an out-of-session committee meeting that happened at the end of ...