A Polunsky guard has been arrested after failing to act when a death row inmate was stabbed and later died. Civil rights case ...

For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, ...

In February 2024, prison officials launched a new group recreation program at the Polunsky Unit, the state's notoriously ...

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal ...

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.

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 ...

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.

PALESTINE, Tx. - An execution date has been set for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long maintained his ...