The journalist recently wrote of her experience being present for an execution and her own family's ties to tragedy in ...

Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, though Texas still tried to put him to death.

The deadly Jet Ski crash on Grapevine Lake has sparked a highly contested conversation on the death penalty in Texas. The debate started after Governor Greg Abbott called for the death penalty for ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for the death penalty for the “illegal aliens” involved in a fatal jet ski crash over Memorial Day Weekend. Ava Moore, 18, was kayaking when she was struck at ...

What crimes qualify for the death penalty in Texas? What to know as Oscar Rosales' trial starts. By Caroline Wilburn, Staff writer Updated May 30, 2025 4:01 p.m.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held up the death penalty when addressing a pair of suspects, both of them undocumented, who were arrested for a jet ski hit-and-run that killed an 18-year-old Air Force ...

Gov. Greg Abbott weighed in on a fatal hit-and-run crash at Grapevine Lake over Memorial Day weekend in a post on X.(Elías Valverde II / Staff Photographer) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took to X ...

El Paso officials estimated prosecutors spent $1.9 million over five years to prepare a death penalty trial against Patrick Crusius, who killed 23 people in a 2019 shooting at a West Texas Wal-Mart.

Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty for Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of El Chapo, in U.S. drug trafficking charges linked to the Sinaloa Cartel's fentanyl trade.

In Texas, the death penalty only applies to those charged with capital murder, which is defined as intentionally or knowingly causing the death of an individual under specific circumstances.

Could the suspects in Ava Moore’s death in Grapevine Lake jet ski crash face execution? Learn what Texas law says about the charges and death penalty process.

A Texas court in effect stopped evidence presentation in the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing a ... The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office is seeking the death penalty.