The Dallas County Commissioners on Tuesday approved a contract of up to $20,000 with forensic pathologist Dr. Jan Gorniak of ...

The Dallas County Commissioners Court wants to weigh in on Robert Roberson's case: Officials asked a Florida-based forensic ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Paul “Greg” House, who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, and ...

A man sent to Texas' death row for killing a Richardson police officer in 2018 could have his sentence overturned.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

In 90% of of all death penalty sentences in 2024, trial courts imposed sentences in the absence of adequate information about ...

Texas plans to execute two others this year. There's a conspicuous difference between their cases and this mass murderer's.

Texan authorities have been criticized over extreme heat in their prison system, where temperatures can routinely rise above ...

Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder ...

SB 990 would raise the age threshold for capital murder eligibility from under 10 years old to 15 years old. It now heads to ...

Judge Robert Pitman says inmates who sued the state could win their case but that the fix is not easy or cheap.