As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Yes, a particularly prominent resident has derided DC as a “dirty, crime ridden death trap” where you can see “the filth and ...

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

The latest Texas death row news from The Texas Tribune. By Ayden Runnels June 26, 2025 Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from ...

Texas death row case: Reed asks U.S. Supreme Court for DNA test In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to throw out a ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found it too late to ...

Milam, now 35, was sentenced to death in 2010. His execution was initially set for 2019 but was delayed due to a judge’s temporary stay. A new date was set for January 2021, which was later changed.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson, the East Texas man whose execution was delayed last year after his case became a ...

NPR's John Burnett reports on the case of Cesar Fierro, a Mexican national who is on death row for killing an El Paso taxi driver. Fierro confessed to the crime - but now, even the prosecutor in ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Robert Roberson have filed a formal objection to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to set an execution date, citing ongoing legal proceedings and ...

California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., (AP) — A Tennessee judge did not have the authority to give Pervis Payne, who was formerly on death row, concurrent sentences of life in prison after ruling that he was ...