The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state's laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by ...

His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to a fatal stabbing decades ago.

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a noted anti-death penalty activist and death row spiritual adviser, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

Flores, who maintains his innocence and has for 25 years, was sentenced to death row in 1999 after the 1998 murder of Betty Black, who was shot and killed in her Farmers Branch home during a robbery.

Reading from a statement, she said of Mendoza: “He’s been on death row 20 years. That ended today. He was put to sleep. He felt no pain. I wish I could say the same about my daughter’s death.” ...

CBS News Texas Live. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's office that originally put him on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor’s office that originally put him on ...

CBS News Texas Live. A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the ...