The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...

Robert Roberson was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed on a “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis after getting ...

A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his ...

With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded, as the ...

Texas elections law says state prison inmates who are appealing their convictions are eligible to register. Many lawyers and ...

The stayed execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson has ignited a political battle between lawmakers and Republicans in ...

The legal standoff continues over Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson and a subpoena calling for him to testify before the ...

Texas death row inmate Randy Halprin, who was once part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners, is being granted a new ...

The latest Texas death row news from The Texas Tribune. By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Nov. 6, 2024 Randy Halprin was a member of a gang of prisoners known as the “Texas 7” who escaped ...

As of Wednesday, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

Attorneys for the inmates are reportedly to ask the state Supreme Court to halt executions and issue any more death warrants ...

A unanimous vote by a Texas House committee successfully subpoenaed a death row inmate scheduled to receive death by lethal injection for the alleged 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter.