Four convicted criminals in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are set for execution in 2026.

A full panel of judges on a federal appeals court heard arguments Wednesday in the appeal of Brittany Holberg’s capital ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson's execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his case back to trial court. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...

Robert Roberson, an East Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, poses for a photo at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Juan Figueroa / ...

The United States executed two death row inmates Thursday evening, September 25—one in Alabama and one in Texas—as the number of state-sanctioned killings continues to rise. The executions of Geoffrey ...

Officer Jovian Motley died under mysterious circumstances in November 2023. The family of a Texas corrections officer is still seeking answers after his death in what was supposed to be a routine ...

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