A shield statute allows the state to withhold a telling piece of information: where Texas is finding a hard-to-get execution ...

Texas and Alabama are poised to execute death row inmates within minutes of each other on the same day this week. On Thursday, Sept. 25, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West, 50, by the relatively ...

In a dramatic turnaround, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday ordered a halt to the execution of death row inmate ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of Robert Roberson a week before it was scheduled to occur.

Roberson, of Palestine, has maintained his innocence for more than 22 years on death row and two previous execution dates as ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

A Texas man faces execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the child’s body.

Texas’ highest criminal court halted Robert Roberson’s execution, citing evolving science on shaken baby syndrome.

Victims of the inmates include a family of four, a college student kidnapped from her bedroom, and a state trooper who was ambushed in his driveway.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man faces execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the ...