Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

The UK government is looking to Estelle prison for ideas - for ways to reduce reoffending and to bring down prisoner numbers ...

Texas is not soft on crime. It has seen the execution of 600 prisoners in the past 40 years, including two so far this year – ...

David Leonard Wood, who has been on death row for more than 32 years, was scheduled to be executed Thursday in the deaths of ...

Texas is getting ready to perform its third execution of 2025 on Thursday while the man set to be executed seeks to have that ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

Brittany Marlowe Holberg was convicted in 1998 of robbing and murdering an 80-year-old man in his Amarillo home. The appeals ...

He has been serving his sentence at Huntsville Unit, the oldest prison in Texas. Constructed 176 years ago, it is made mostly of red brick, and even though it is air-conditioned, temperatures ...

Inmates have to earn their freedom through good behaviour at penitentiary the Justice Secretary sees as a model for UK ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of ... told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north of Houston. “How can I not be angry at the corruption ...