Federal and state prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, the Texas gunman who targeted Hispanic ...

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...

A man sent to Texas' death row for killing a Richardson police officer in 2018 could have his sentence overturned.

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

After 27 years on death row at the Patrick L ... In 2011, Kirkpatrick recanted her testimony but neither a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals nor a federal district court found that prosecutors ...

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987. “I’m accused of killing six people when an ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the ...

Sister Helen Prejean’s walk into the dark world of death row began with letters. It was part of her order’s community ...

The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals court ruled that she received an unfair trial in 1996 after being accused ...

He still gets chills, however, when he remembers meeting Allen on Texas’ death row. “I’m sitting there talking to him, and he’s like, really into clowns,” Hood says. “So I’m sitting ...

In nearly simultaneous decisions, courts in two U.S. states on Tuesday blocked the imminent executions of death row inmates. The highest court in Texas issued a stay of execution for David Leonard ...