A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - Jerry Neil Loer ... The sheriff’s office organized crime unit, assisted by the Coryell County Sheriff’s Office Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team, executed ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas - David Leonard Wood is angry. He’s angry that he’s been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades ... to have a mountain of evidence − direct evidence tying David Wood ...

(TEXAS TRIBUNE) - Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar will be the next chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, overseeing 11 universities that educate more than 157,000 students and eight state ...

Texas executed Death Row inmate Richard Lee Tabler on Thursday, 20 years after he fatally shot four people in what he described as a fit of rage. Texas used a lethal injection of pentobarbital to ...

The Texas 7 were a group of prison escapees who broke out of the John B. Connally Unit in Kenedy ... All surviving members were sentenced to death. Four have been executed, while Patrick Murphy ...

Wood is scheduled to be executed after 5 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison ... He was sentenced to death Nov. 30, 1992.