Texas inmate Cesar Hernandez details the execution day for Ramiro Gonzales in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project.
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A judge has granted the state's motion to recuse District Court Judge Natalia Cornelio from a high-profile death row appeal ... been moved from TDCJ custody.
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
"What their story shows is that redemption is possible, even in the most horrific of circumstances," Rev. Jeff Hood said of ...
A Texas state lawmaker said Attorney General Ken Paxton has shut down efforts to allow death row inmate ... communicating with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), according to The ...
Harris County, the state’s most populous county, led with more than 60 people on death row, according to figures from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice reviewed by The News. North Texas ...
According to TDCJ, 1,067 criminals have been sentenced ... jurors minds is the number of innocent people freed from death row or prison over the years due to mistakes, advances in science and ...
Protesters unload signs and speakers outside of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville unit ... the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Quickly, the state ...