Lower appeals courts had previously rejected defense requests to stay the execution, and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Friday denied Johnson’s request to commute his death sentence ...

TEXAS - A Texas death row inmate, 49-year-old Matthew Johnson, was executed Tuesday evening. He was convicted of murdering a Garland gas station attendant exactly 13 years ago, on May 20 ...

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Prison officials moved inmate Oscar Franklin Smith from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is to be executed by lethal injection. Smith's attorney, Kelley Henry ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man is facing execution Tuesday evening for the burning death of an elderly clerk he set on fire during a convenience store robbery more than a decade ago. Matthew Lee ...

Prison officials moved inmate Oscar Franklin Smith from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is to be executed by lethal injection. Smith's attorney, Kelley Henry, a chief ...

Nearly 25 years after a police officer was shot and killed during a chase, the state of Indiana carried out the execution of the man convicted of the crime early Tuesday at Indiana State Prison.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man is facing execution Tuesday evening for the burning death of an elderly clerk he set on fire during a convenience store robbery more than a decade ago. Matthew Lee Johnson ...