The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review appeals from two Texas death row inmates, including a man who suffocated a 2-year-old Utah girl on Christmas Day 1997 and buried her in a suitcase near ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

CBS News Texas Live. 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 ...

A Houston court has stopped the scheduled February execution of child killer Britt Ripkowski, saying that he suffers from bipolar disorder and is incompetent to be put to death. Ripkowski, 41, was ...

Next month's execution of child-killer Britt Ripkowski was halted by a Houston district court Friday, which found the California man suffers from bipolar disorder and is legally incompetent ...