A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

Dimitrios Pagourtzis of Santa Fe, Texas, is 17 years old, he will be subject to a 2005 Supreme Court ruling banning the execution of juveniles -- even though he will be treated as an adult in ...

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

CBS News Texas Live. A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the ...

A Texas death row inmate was deemed “actually innocent” by a judge who recommended her capital murder conviction be overturned as new evidence affirmed her daughter died from an accidental ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

Texas Senate hears emotional testimony on expanding death penalty for murderers of children aged 10-15. ... Convicted offenders will face either the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

A Texas judge says that a mother who was previously convicted in 2008 of capital murder in the February 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter is 'actually innocent,' as Texas’s Court of Criminal ...

Anti-death penalty advocates, including state abolitionists, former death row inmates and allies, held a rally in Texas calling for capital punishment to be abolished. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

Oct 18 (Reuters) - A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on Thursday night is now set to testify next week before the state lawmakers who believe he may have been wrongly ...

Texas Senate passes SB 990 to include death penalty for killing children aged 10-15. Bill heads to House for vote, then to Gov. Abbott if approved. Skip Navigation ...