The Tarrant County DA's office DA recently waived the death penalty for the men indicted in the killings of G$ Lil Ronnie and ...

Oklahoma governor grants clemency to death row inmate just hours before scheduled execution, commuting sentence to life ...

After avoiding another execution last month, Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson faces yet another roadblock in his ...

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This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

Lawyers for Robert Roberson, the condemned man on Texas’ death row who faces execution next week, say the first episode of a “Dateline” podcast about his case contains “highly relevant” evidence that ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence for a woman who committed a ...

PALESTINE, Texas — Texas’ highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson’s execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his capital murder conviction back to trial court.

A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 ...