Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two decades. Texas’ male death ...

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

An empty cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, home to Texas’ death row. Credit: Court filing. Now, prisoners’ attorneys argue, death row conditions are “unjustifiably severe.” ...

Inmates at the Polunsky Death Row Unit regularly go weeks without adequate out-of-cell recreational time, the lawsuit alleges. The facility is supposed to adhere to the Death Row Plan adopted by ...

How many death row inmates are in Texas? The men are housed in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston in single cells with a window, according to the TDCJ website. The women are housed at the O’Daniel ...

A group of Texas death row inmates are suing the state's prison system over its mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement rules for those awaiting execution.

In the decades since then, the men on death row at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit have spent their days in near-total isolation, only allowed to leave their cells for two hours of recreation, three ...

In the decades since then, the men on death row at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit have spent their days in near-total isolation, only allowed to leave their cells for two hours of recreation, three days a ...

She said Roberson would be returned to the Polunsky Unit, about 45 miles to the east, where the state’s male death row is located. Roberson, 57, was convicted of killing his daughter, Nikki ...

Thursday's Top Stories Dallas-Fort Worth, Jan. 26 06:06. HOUSTON (AP) — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of mandatory ...