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A new petition claims Anderson County judges acted unconstitutionally multiple times in both Roberson’s case and in ...
Dissenting judges expressed frustration over a lack of clarity on why the case of David Leonard Wood, whose execution in March was halted, was remanded to the lower court.
For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, and—for a select group—a taste of community. After more than 25 years ...
Texas spent 30 years trying to execute Scott Panetti. He never should've been on death row. Scott Panetti and his parents, Jack and Yvonne Panetti, who frequently visited him on death row.
The scheduled execution comes amid an elevated number of executions in Florida and nationwide in 2025, and it highlights ...
Roberson’s attorneys have asked the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals to pause his execution until the court has considered his case.
TEXAS DEATH ROW STATISTICS: From the average age of a person on death row to the longest time spent there, here's what to know about Texas executions.
A clemency petition for death row inmate Andre Thomas was filed Wednesday asking that Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles commute the blind 39-year-old's sentence to life ...
DENTON, Texas -- At 17 years old, Ryan Matthews was wrongly accused of killing a man. Two years later, he was sentenced to death. Now, at age 39, he's graduating from college.
NEW BOSTON, Texas -- A Texas woman convicted of killing a pregnant woman and then taking her unborn baby, who also died, has been sentenced to death, court records show.
Scotty Gardner, an admitted murderer, has asked the state of Arkansas to restart executions to complete his death sentence.