death penalty

Billy Jack Crutsinger was convicted in the murder of an 89-year-old woman and her daughter in 2003

A new law going before the Texas House is looking to classify abortions as homicides and punishable by death.

Attorneys for a Texas inmate want the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution for the shooting deaths of a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother during a birthday party 10 years ago outside a Fort Worth apartment.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a reprieve for inmate Garcia White, just one day before his scheduled execution.

38-year-old Lisa Ann Coleman was put to death Wednesday night for the torture and starvation death of her girlfriend's 9-year-old son.

Convicted murderer Clayton Lockett was scheduled to be executed at 6:00 p.m. tonight (April 29). While authorities were administering the lethal injection they discovered the line into Lockett's arm had blown. Prison officials halted the execution and at 7:06 p.m. Lockett suffered a massive heart attack and passed away.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former financial analyst with a history of disruptive behavior is set for execution for the road-rage shooting deaths of two truckers in the Dallas area 15 years ago. Douglas Feldman faces lethal injection Wednesday (July 31) evening at 6pm in Huntsville...