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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Matthew Lee Johnson was condemned for the 2012 death of 76-year-old Nancy Harris, a great-grandmother who was splashed with lighter fluid and set ablaze at a store in Garland, a northeast suburb of ...

The three men executed this week all died by lethal injection. As is so often the case, their lives were plagued by either ...

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.