Texas executes Arthur Lee Burton for 1997 murder - The Texas …
Aug 7, 2024 · Texas executed Arthur Lee Burton on Wednesday evening after his lawyers could not successfully convince the U.S. Supreme Court that he was intellectually disabled, a last …
Ken Paxton, Texas House members spar over Roberson case - The …
Oct 24, 2024 · A week after death row inmate Robert Roberson was set to die, the extraordinary quest to save his life has morphed into a deepening political battle between a group of Texas …
Supreme Court to review death penalty appeal challenging Texas’s …
Jul 16, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a Texas death penalty appeal by Ruben Gutierrez that challenged the constitutionality of a state law limiting DNA testing …
Texas death row - The Texas Tribune
Dec 23, 2024 · The latest Texas death row news from The Texas Tribune. By Ayden Runnels Jan. 22, 2025 Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in …
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate’s petition
Jul 2, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to give Rodney Reed the chance to have his murder case reviewed, delivering a blow to the death row inmate who has for more …
Robert Roberson murder case: What to know about the evidence
Oct 29, 2024 · Texas death row prisoners are housed in Livingston but executed at the state prison in Huntsville, about 43 miles away. Credit: Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Innocence …
Texas’ highest criminal court orders new trial for death row inmate ...
Nov 6, 2024 · SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police …
Seven Texans facing federal execution given ... - The Texas Tribune
Dec 23, 2024 · Biden’s act affects 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, the Associated Press reported. At least five of the Texans scheduled for federal execution stabbed and killed …
Lawsuit: Texas death row conditions are “cruel, inhumane and …
Jan 26, 2023 · Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two …
Robert Roberson’s expected Texas House testimony scrapped
Oct 21, 2024 · A Texas House panel heard more than nine hours of testimony Monday from a range of people who support death row inmate Robert Roberson, seen at the TDCJ's …