A Texas woman was on death row for 27 years. But questions over a key witness could have her soon walk free from prison. Brittany Holberg’s murder conviction has been passed down to the district ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of capital punishment in 1976, Texas has put 593 inmates to death ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter.

A group of nuns from Texas have become close with the women on Texas' death row, visiting them every month and getting them to convert to Catholicism as they fear for the women's lives ...

Melissa Lucio's delayed execution sparks debate over death penalty in the U.S. 08:37 A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman's death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had ...

A federal appeals court has reversed the murder conviction of a 52-year-old Texas woman who has been on death row for close to three decades.. In 1998, Brittany Marlowe Holberg was found guilty by ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals court ruled that she received an unfair trial in 1996 after being ...

Lisa Coleman, 38, was the last woman put to death in Texas, via a lethal dose of pentobarbital, on Sept. 17. 2014. She had been convicted of the starvation and torture death of her girlfriend’s ...