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

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

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

Roberson was convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of the 2-year-old, who was diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is asking the state's Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his October execution.

Texas prisons are in the spotlight, with the Reeves County Detention Center and Allan B. Polunsky Unit facing scrutiny for ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 prison program in Texas is bringing some positive changes in the lives of most hardened criminals and death row inmates. As per the new program, ‘recreational time’ is being offered to criminals ...

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