The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district ...

Texas death row inmate William Speer went to prison after murdering a friend's father when he was 16, ... 49, was set to receive a lethal injection Oct. 26 at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

A group of Texas death row inmates are suing the state's prison system over its mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement rules for those awaiting execution.

A group of Texas death row prisoners is suing the state's prison system, arguing that its policy of holding male death row inmates in indefinite solitary confinement violates their constitutional ...

Tabler’s death row phone calls in 2008 to state Sen. John Whitmire, who is now the mayor of Houston, prompted an unprecedented lockdown of more than 150,000 inmates in the the nation’s second ...

The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday stayed the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, just minutes after the state's highest criminal court had cleared the way for him to be put to death.

The Huntsville state penitentiary, pictured on Jan. 31, 2024, houses the state's execution chamber. ... There are 174 people on Texas’ death row, and seven of them are women.

Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in the US in 2025 ...

The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday stayed the execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson, just minutes after the state's highest criminal court had cleared the way for him to be put to death.