Two juveniles were arrested after allegedly shooting and striking a man with a car during a carjacking, according to the Austin Police Department.

A new act is aiming for the federal government to pursue the death penalty in all 50 states, even where it's banned, for ...

The governor is urging Texas lawmakers to pass a bill and a Constitutional amendment to crack down on local judges who he said repeatedly release violent offenders on low bail, only to see them commit ...

But the Bayou State is not the only death penalty state with a wrongful conviction problem. Death row exonerations – when someone is released after being sentenced – have become more common in the ...

Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill Thursday to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order instituting ...

The now 68-year-old inmate has been declared incompetent since 1987 when his initial execution was halted due to severe ...

Clarence Jordan’s mental and physical health have deteriorated while he’s been locked in a prison cell for almost 50 years, ...

Clarence Jordan's lawyers argue his death row sentence violates the Eighth Amendment due to his intellectual disabilities.

FIRST ON FOX: A House Republican is seeking to ensure illegal immigrants who commit murder in the U.S. are eligible for the death penalty in all 50 states. Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas ...

The bipartisan version of the bill advancing in the House does not go as far as the Texas Republican has pushed in recent ...

Investigators believe people worked together to assault Michael Ortiz with a metal pipe by hitting him multiple times in the ...

a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Texas, told Fox 26 Houston that the practice is rare and that only 16 federal executions have been carried out since 1976. “I do not think the ...