The 2023 law, previously ruled unconstitutional by a Travis County judge, prevents cities from enforcing ordinances that don’t align with broad swaths of state law.

A relatively new pilot scheme has seen inmates on death row granted more privileges than they’ve had in the past. In America, 27 states have the death penalty, and among them, serving this sentence in ...

A man who faced execution nine times and had his conviction vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court is asking a judge to enforce what he says is an agreement between him and the state's attorney general ...

A judge set October 16 as the new execution date for Robert Roberson. He's on death row for the 2002 murder of his 2-year-old daughter.

His appearance in the courtroom surprised many of those inside who were not expecting the Texas Death Row inmate to be transferred from a Southeast Texas prison.

A judge ordered an Oct. 16 execution date for death row inmate Robert Roberson Wednesday upon the Texas Attorney General's request — almost exactly a year after he narrowly avoided execution ...

A district court judge set a new execution date for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson Wednesday morning.

A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement.