Four convicted criminals in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are set for execution in 2026.

A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ...

Charles Victor Thompson, a Texas inmate convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in 1998, was executed by ...

Texas is set to carry out its first execution of the year Wednesday.

A full panel of judges on a federal appeals court heard arguments Wednesday in the appeal of Brittany Holberg’s capital ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...

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Charles Don Flores on Texas Death Row in 2021. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied Flores' appeal challenging his death sentence for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder. Texas’ highest criminal court has ...

This photo provided by Texas Department of Criminal Justice. shows Texas death row inmate Charles Victor Thompson. (Texas ...

Texas' highest criminal court on Thursday blocked Robert Roberson's execution a week before it was set to take place, sending his case back to trial court. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in ...