The move comes following completion of a review begun under President Barack Obama, with the Justice Department saying five inmates will be executed starting in December.

Death row inmate Robert Roberson’s case remains in legal limbo. On Tuesday his attorneys filed an Opposition to State’s Motion for Extension to Answer, asking the Anderson County district court to ...

Lawyers with the Texas attorney general’s office cited the time required to untangle “novel” and extensive material, in ...

A new comprehensive analysis of state data shows Texas prisons get so hot in summer that temperatures there would routinely violate state standards for other types of lockups. The state will be back ...

The demonstrations, expected to continue through the weekend, came as the Justice Department said it would conduct a civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti.

Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Glenda Dennise Hayslip, ...

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

Charles Victor Thompson was executed for the 1998 murders of his ex-girlfriend Glenda Dennise Hayslip and her new boyfriend ...

At 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, Charles Victor Thompson became the first Texas death row inmate to be executed in 2026. Thompson, 55, ...

Charles Thompson was executed by lethal injection Wednesday night after spending almost three decades on Texas Death Row.

Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for ...