Speer was condemned for strangling Gary Dickerson to death in July 1997 at the Telford state prison, located near New Boston in northeast Texas. Prosecutors said Speer killed Dickerson in a bid to ...

A Texas death row inmate was executed Thursday for the ... which will take place at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. They have previously argued that Brown's conviction was tainted ...

The 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.

17 (UPI) --The Texas ... 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 at the Texas State Penitentiary ...

Tracy Beatty, 61, uttered “See you on the other side” before he received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state penitentiary ... gratitude to fellow death row inmates, naming several.

The lawsuit filed Thursday wants to end the practice of automatically holding death row inmates in solitary confinement. Male death-row inmates are suing the state of Texas for keeping them in ...

(The Texas Tribune) - Many state prison inmates in Texas, including people on death row, are eligible to vote — and may not even know it. Under a little-known section of state elections law ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness ... The inmate was strapped to the death chamber gurney at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. AFP via Getty Images Tabler shot ...

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. The state ...

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has ...