Wes Smith, a 21-year-old junior at Texas Christian University, was shot multiple times outside a Fort Worth bar in 2023, prosecutors said.

Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz is responding to a new development in a death penalty case out of Brownsville. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

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

Federal Courts Now an Avenue for Inmates to Challenge Texas DNA Testing Laws The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a ...

The state’s use of capital punishment has waned, however, and the number of people on death row has dropped by more than half over the past twenty-five years. There are 174 people on Texas ...

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 ...

Once filled with rage, Texas death row inmate set to be executed is now 'a gentle human' From a young man with no direction to a man of faith who says he's ready to die, Richard Tabler's path to ...

With 3 death sentences in 2024, Tarrant County ranks 2nd in Texas for death row inmates A review of state prison data, court records shows Tarrant County has surpassed Dallas County in the number ...

Death row inmate Robert Roberson, convicted of murder on elements of "shaken baby syndrome,” has been ordered to appear before a Texas House committee.

Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. On Tuesday, lawmakers issued a new subpoena for death row inmate Roberson's to testify in person this ...