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

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

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

The office of District Attorney Micheal Murray issued the following press release regarding felony cases recently heard in ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, whose ...

The Texas Rangers and Forest Hill police are looking for two men wanted in connection with the murders of rapper G$ Lil ...

DPS names repeat offender Carlos Ayala Morales as March's Featured Fugitive, offering a $6,000 reward for tips.

according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website. In Texas, from 1819 to 1923, people in Texas were put to death by hanging. In 1923, according to the Texas Department of Criminal ...

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

Adonis Robinson allegedly murdered Ronnie "LilRonnie" Smith and his 5-year-old daughter. Jakobie Russell also is sought in connection with the case.