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Robert Roberson, convicted of the death of his two-year-old daughter in 2003, faces a new execution date despite new evidence ...
A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...
Texas Texas death row inmate's lawyer says 'there was no crime' as she makes last-ditch effort to save his life Robert Roberson scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Oct. 17 ...
Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...
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.
A Texas death row inmate was deemed “actually innocent” by a judge who recommended her capital murder conviction be overturned as new evidence affirmed her daughter died from an accidental fall.
Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two decades. Texas’ male ...
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing in a bid to test evidence he says would block his execution.
A court in Texas has thrown out the death sentence of convicted killer Raymond Riles, who has spent more than 40 years on the state’s death row.
David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals upheld William Reece’s death sentence for the 1997 murder of Tiffany Johnston, rejecting claims his confession was coerced.