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 ...

T he first death row prisoner to help lead a death row ministry in Texas’s Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a state prison with maximum security units, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, October 26.

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 ...

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

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.

There are 134,000 people incarcerated in state prisons, including 175 on death row. It’s unclear how many of them may be eligible to vote. State officials do not track this data.

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 inmate was strapped to the death chamber gurney at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. AFP via Getty Images. Tabler shot and killed Mohammed-Amine Rahmouni, 28, and Haitham Zayed, 25 ...

The Texas protocol for the day of execution. HUNTSVILLE, TX – Unless the U.S. Supreme Court or Governor Greg Abbott intervene, tonight at 6 p.m., Robert Roberson will be put to death by lethal ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district attorney who refused to test DNA evidence.