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.

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

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

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid ...

The Madison County Sheriff's Office was at commissioners court on March 11 to advocate for higher salaries to keep from losing even more employees.

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to ...

The Potter County Commissioners heard an update Tuesday from 47th District Attorney Jason Herring regarding judicial case flow and its impact on overcrowding at the Potter County Jail. Herring ...

In fact, bail decisions are usually made by appointed magistrate judges at the county level or municipal judges who consider ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

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