In February 2024, prison officials launched a new group recreation program at the Polunsky Unit, the state's notoriously ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.

For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, ...

A Polunsky guard has been arrested after failing to act when a death row inmate was stabbed and later died. Civil rights case ...

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal ...

A relatively new pilot scheme has seen inmates on death row granted more privileges than they’ve had in the past. In America, 27 states have the death penalty, and among them, serving this sentence in ...

Dissenting judges expressed frustration over a lack of clarity on why the case of David Leonard Wood, whose execution in ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is set to be executed on Oct. 16, a judge announced during a hearing on Wednesday. Attorney General Ken Paxton requested the hearing to discuss a new ...

Robert Roberson is now scheduled to be put to death in October for his conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter, ...

A new execution date is being requested for Robert Roberson. He's the Texas man who'd been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a ...

Judge Austin Reeve Jackson set Robert Roberson's execution for Oct. 16, almost exactly a year after the Texas Supreme Court granted him a stay.