The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

In the late summer of 2023, Jeremy Busby was brutally attacked by a cellmate in the Texas prison where he was being held.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Dallas County prosecutors are trying to get Heath Harris removed from Randy Halprin's defense team because he attended the ...

According to officials, David Sanford, 55, of Huntsville was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by a life term of supervised release on Wednesday. Sanford pleaded guilty to one count of ...

The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...

Tiede sued in 2023, claiming his life was in danger due to hot conditions in his cell at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville ... a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons. The department says ...