The mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old murder victim, is advocating in Austin for Senate Bill 990, which seeks to ...

Parents testify at the Texas Capitol urging lawmakers to expand the death penalty for convicted child murderers to include ...

An emotional, 10-hour-long Texas House committee meeting Tuesday highlighted the stark divide between lawmakers and the ...

President Donald Trump is to hold talks on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he looks to get buy-in on a U.S.

The FBI extradited an alleged senior leader of the MS-13 gang who was on the agency's "10 most wanted" list, FBI Director ...

AUSTIN - A proposed law that would expand the death penalty for those convicted of killing older children is going for a ...

The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice voted unanimously to pass Senate Bill 990, which would expand the age threshold for ...

Career State Deptartment official Michael Kozak argued in a court filing that a ruling to return deportation flights could ...

A new bill calls to expand punishment for those convicted of murdering a child 15 years old or younger to include the death ...

The administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency intervention limiting the power of lower court rulings.