The bill would require the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to install air conditioning at each of its facilities by the ...

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

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Stephen Stanko is scheduled for death on June 13 and must decide by May 30 whether to die by lethal injection, firing squad, ...

After exhausting his appeals, Stephen Stanko, convicted of two murders in Horry County, will have to choose his method of ...

A Utah death row inmate will be retried for the death of a Provo woman after the Utah Supreme Court affirmed the decision ...

The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that “numerous constitutional violations” during the trial and sentencing of a man who spent ...

Another Texas death row case from the late 1990s is facing scrutiny as laws and science evolve, questioning if the state got it right in the capital murder case of Charles Flores.  Flores, who ...

This image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas death row inmate Moises Sandoval Mendoza. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing ...

which directs the Texas Commission on Jail Standards to appoint an outside law enforcement agency to conduct an independent investigation into “the death of a prisoner in a county jail.” ...

Sigmon,” a death row inmate who was executed by firing squad on March 7. The lawmakers said Sigmon’s autopsy included several photographs, evidence of his clothing and x-rays of the gunshot ...

Under President Donald Trump’s renewed administration, Texas has emerged as a key frontline ... AUSTIN (Nexstar) – Inside a climate-controlled storage unit just outside Houston is an almost ...