Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.

Karmelo Anthony, 17, won’t face the death penalty for Austin Metcalf’s stabbing, leaving the victim’s father unsettled.

A Rio Grande Valley couple has been charged with capital murder in the death of their two-month-old baby, authorities said.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. He was one of several people on ...

Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach shows an image of a spot of blood that contradicted the narrative that led to Robert Roberson's conviction in his daughter's death. (Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer ...

Anti-death penalty advocates, including state abolitionists, former death row inmates and allies, held a rally in Texas calling for capital punishment to be abolished.

Texas has scheduled its fifth execution of 2025, and its another North Texas case. Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection May 20. He was convicted in the 2012 ...

Luigi Mangione may receive death penalty, while white supremacist who killed 23 at Texas Walmart won't Prosecutors' decision to forego seeking the death penalty in the Texas case reportedly had to ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened the death penalty for two illegal immigrants suspected in the fatal jet ski hit-and-run of 18-year-old Air Force recruit, Ava Moore. “Welcome to Texas. Here ...

Texas death penalty report highlights racial bias, ... Bernd Obermann/Getty Images. As 2024 wraps up, data on death penalty cases in Texas gives an overall review of the year.

Texas Republicans pushing for death penalty in all 50 states for undocumented murderers. GOP lawmakers seek to close ‘dangerous loophole’ preventing local prosecutors from seeking capital ...