Last year, Trump’s top immigration adviser, Tom Homan, said he would accept an offer from Texas state leaders to use a ...

Yolanda Saldivar, the woman convicted of murdering rising star Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez in 1995, is seeking ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice Victim Services Division announced an important update regarding the timing of notifications for victims and their families. Effective immediately, the divisio ...

Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

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.

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

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

A suspect convicted of cntinuously sexually abusing a child has been sentenced to serve the rest of his life in prison.On ...

“The health and safety of our staff and inmate population is our highest priority,” Haney said.

The execution date for a death row inmate and Tom Green County native dubbed the “Desert Killer” who was convicted of ...