This will be the first time Creuzot has pursued capital punishment since taking office in 2019. He has opted not to seek ...

Attorneys for Texas death row prisoner Charles Flores have filed a motion to prevent an execution date, citing concerns over ...

Last year, lawmakers waded into a dramatic feud over the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, seen as the embodiment of ...

A man convicted of murdering a woman in a Tampa Bay, Fla., motel room in 1995 was executed at 6:16 p.m. EDT on Thursday.

Randy Halprin, 47, was granted a new trial after a Texas appeals court ruled that his original trial was tainted by ...

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

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 ...

In Texas, women commit only a fraction of violent crimes, yet six are on death row, highlighting the unique and troubling cases that led to such severe consequences.

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

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

An East Texas teenager who went missing and later found dead was beaten to death by a group ... including two adults and two juveniles, the Houston County Sheriff’s Office said in a May 12 ...