East Texas detective Brian Wharton helped investigate and prosecute Robert Roberson for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old ...

Texas' execution numbers remain far lower than recent state highs, even as executions nationally climbed, driven almost entirely by a surge in Florida, according to a new year-end report. Why it ...

FILE – The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. Texas continued a long-term downward trend in capital punishment in ...

The Texas man convicted of kidnapping and murdering a retired TCU professor in 2004 has been scheduled for execution.

FILE - The state of Texas execution chamber in Huntsville, Texas, is pictured on May 27, 2008. A group of Texas death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, against the state’s ...

It’s been 148 days since Texas executed someone—a remarkable lull in the use of the death penalty for a state that has killed far more people than any other. The 2016 hiatus is, in part, a sign of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on ...

In late November, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not seek the death penalty in the prosecution of Yordanis Cabos-Martinez, the man accused of beheading his ...

There have been five executions apiece this year in Texas, Alabama and South Carolina. Florida leads the nation with 18. Kristin Houle Cuellar is executive director of the Texas Coalition to Abolish ...