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Texas’ highest criminal court orders new trial for death row inmate over judge's alleged antisemitic bias By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Nov. 6, 2024 ...
As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting ... U.S. Supreme Court hears Texas death row inmate’s appeal for DNA test of ...
The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...
Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.
A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar is scheduled to be executed Tuesday. Thomas Lee ...
In nearly 350 death penalty cases Maricopa County prosecutors pursued over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The numbers indicate the need for a more deliberate and transparent process to ...
Global efforts to protect children against diseases like measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to deadly infections.
Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...
I know Park Row, where my father grew up in the shadow of Fair Park, as well as I know my own street. And I've watched the ...
Rockers the Puta-Pons only managed one album, but their two irrepressible front women endured tragedy and a messy breakup to ...
The latest batch of MLB Power Rankings for the week of Monday, June 22, with the Los Angeles Dodgers on top and both the New ...