Scholar and author, Dr. Michael Phillips, SMU Professor Dr. Rick Halperin and Hadi Jawad, co-founder and president of Human Rights Dallas submitted the op-ed below on Texas’ death penalty. If all goes ...

A Dallas County death row inmate’s attorneys are seeking to halt his scheduled execution after his cousin and co-defendant ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton had already ordered his last meal. Barbecue chicken, banana cake with ice cream and sweet tea.

A 33-year-old prisoner died one day after a 37-year-old inmate at the same prison was attacked and killed, officials said.

Cedric Ricks, 51, was executed on Wednesday in Texas after stabbing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son to death in ...

Hyundai is recalling nearly 70,000 of its 2026 Palisade SUVs while an investigation into the death of a young child continues ...

Texas carried out its second execution of 2026 after the Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a man convicted in a ...

Cedric Allen Ricks was executed in Texas, while Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton received a rare commutation.

Trigger Warning: This article contains details of violence and death. Reader discretion is strongly advised. A Texas death row inmate, Cedric Ricks, used his final words to apologize to the victim’s ...

I’m sorry that I took your mom and your brother away,” Cedric Ricks told the third, surviving victim, Marcus Figueroa, in his final statement.

A Texas man was put to death Wednesday evening for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in 2013, apologizing profusely to her older son who survived with multiple stab wounds and ...

Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, apologized to a ...