Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate with autism, is gaining significant support to halt his execution, scheduled for October 17, after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied efforts to ...

Texas’ highest criminal court orders new trial for death row inmate over judge's alleged antisemitic bias By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Nov. 6, 2024 ...

Death penalty states have had difficulty finding suppliers of drugs used in lethal injection since at least 2014, when manufacturers began refusing to sell them for purposes of execution. Texas ...

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Dr. Phil McGraw of TV fame and best-selling author John Grisham on Monday testified before Texas lawmakers who brought a ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row inmate whose daughter died in 2002 in a tragedy blamed on ...

A week after death row inmate Robert Roberson was set to die, the extraordinary quest to save his life has morphed into a deepening political battle between Texas House lawmakers and the state's ...

Robert Roberson, an autistic inmate on Texas death row, is only days away from his scheduled execution on Thursday, Oct. 17. As the clock ticks, a new court filing in a separate case in Dallas ...

Hours later, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott disclosed he had pardoned four individuals for lower-level offenses. Biden’s act affects 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, the Associated Press reported.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

Dr. Phil McGraw of TV fame and best-selling author John Grisham on Monday testified before Texas lawmakers who brought a death row inmate’s execution to a sudden halt last week.. The inmate ...