one was to John Whitmire, Senator of the 15th District at the time.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Polunsky Unit, the prison that houses the 169 men on Texas' death row in Livingston, Texas, January 22, 2025. AFP A serial rapist and murderer was put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama on Thursday, ...

James Lemarc “Byrdman” Byrd, 56, died on Jan. 26 at the Alfred D. Hughes Unit in Coryell County, according to a report from the Texas Attorney General’s Office.(iStock / Getty Images ...

He was being held at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, Texas’ death row jail, situated in Livingtson, north of Houston. The murderer spent his final moments alive speaking to his wife, Helena Noa Dubois.

Steven Nelson was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insisted he did not commit. Huntsville, Texas - A man was executed by lethal injection in ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this year and the first of ...

A man in Texas convicted of beating and suffocating a pastor during a church robbery was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, and used his last words to tell his wife he loved her.

12-week reentry program the Texas Department of Criminal Justice launched in 2019 to help women incarcerated at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit (formerly called the Mountain View Unit) address ...