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In February 2024, prison officials launched a new group recreation program at the Polunsky Unit, the state's notoriously ...
A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.
For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, ...
A Polunsky guard has been arrested after failing to act when a death row inmate was stabbed and later died. Civil rights case ...
The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal ...
A relatively new pilot scheme has seen inmates on death row granted more privileges than they’ve had in the past. In America, 27 states have the death penalty, and among them, serving this sentence in ...
PALESTINE, Tx. - An execution date has been set for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long maintained his ...
Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested death row inmate Robert Roberson, whose execution date was delayed last year after his case became a political lightning rod, be executed on Oct. 16.
After a roughly 20-minute hearing, Judge Austin Reeve Jackson rejected arguments by Roberson's attorney that his execution ...
Dissenting judges expressed frustration over a lack of clarity on why the case of David Leonard Wood, whose execution in ...