The Texas senate has passed a bill that would expand death penalty eligibility for individuals convicted of murdering ...

SB 990 would raise the age threshold for capital murder eligibility from under 10 years old to 15 years old. It now heads to ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the ...

The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate convicted of sexually assaulting and ...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing ...

The Supreme Court for a second time intervened over a Texas death row inmate who claims his murder conviction should be ...

Alanie Rose Rodriguez, 16, was reported missing on Feb. 15 from the 5000 block of Desert ... Desert Killer' case: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halts execution of death row inmate David Leonard ...

David Leonard Wood, who has been on death row for more than 32 years, was scheduled to be executed Thursday in the deaths of six girls and young women found buried in shallow graves in Northeast El ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, 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 ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...

O’Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top three in imposing death sentences.

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...