Prosecutors' decision to forego seeking the death penalty in the Texas case reportedly had to do with the victims' families' ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

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 ...

Brittany Marlowe Holberg was convicted in 1998 of robbing and murdering an 80-year-old man in his Amarillo home. The appeals ...

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

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. 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 ...

A Florida death row inmate is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Tuesday after a failed appeal citing concerns about his weight.

Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. 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 ...