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 ...

One Texas man went on a spree of five cash loan robberies, but a foolish mistake got him caught and convicted of the crimes.

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

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 ...

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 Holberg, 52, remains in custody while a lower court decides how to proceed with her case Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE ... for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades ...

Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top three in imposing death sentences. The state’s use of capital punishment has waned, however, and the number of people on death row has ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's office that originally put him on death row. The ...

A Texas woman who's been sitting on death row for 27 years for the brutal murder of an 80-year-old man had her conviction tossed after an astonishing admission was made about a key witness in her ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's office that originally put him on ...