A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

That informant recanted her testimony in 2011, but neither a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals or a federal district court found that prosecutors had violated Holberg's constitutional right to a ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the ...

A federal appeals court has reversed the murder conviction of a 52-year-old Texas woman who has been on death row for close to three decades. In 1998, Brittany Marlowe Holberg was found guilty by ...

Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock embraced constitutional originalism, a judicial philosophy tied to conservatism, in addressing the Legislature. Audio recording is automated for accessibility.

was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and young ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a case that could pave the way for Texas to host the nation’s first independent disposal ground for spent nuclear fuel. Currently ...

A swath of a Texas town was given the all-clear after authorities advised the area to evacuate on Thursday during the investigation of a bomb threat near a county courthouse. The evacuation zone ...

The Supreme Court appeared swayed by a Texas death row inmate’s argument he has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing, as he seeks to obtain testing on evidence he ...