Criminal Justice. Texas Lawmakers Temporarily Save Death Row Inmate Robert Roberson From the Execution Chamber Roberson was scheduled to become the first person in the country to be executed based ...

Last night, Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson narrowly avoided becoming the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what was formerly called "shaken baby syndrome ...

HOUSTON -- A new execution date has been requested for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who had been set last year to become the ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

In this undated photograph, Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio is holding one of her sons, John. Lucio is set to be executed on April 27 for the 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah.

On March 9, Hood was in Texas' execution chamber while Brown was being executed. Brown used his final words to insist he was innocent of the 1992 quadruple homicide that he was sent to death row.

A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago was executed on Tuesday evening. Garcia Glenn White was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m. CDT following a ...

A Texas man who admitted he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001 was executed Wednesday evening — what would have been the victim's 41st birthday. Ramiro ...

Texas Continues Sending People to the Execution Chamber, Innocent or Not Year-end report focuses on inmates with innocence claims By Brant Bingamon, Fri., Jan. 10, 2025 ...

A woman who watched nearly 300 death row executions take place over 12 years opened up about how her macabre career impacted ...