A division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice opened a conflict of interest investigation this week into the tens of ...

A federal appeals court has partly upheld a $1 million verdict for a Texas correctional officer fired after a disability ...

A Webb County Sheriff's Office employee allegedly confessed to continuous sexual abuse of a minor Friday after the victim ...

Austin city leaders have expressed concern and frustration over what they said is a lack of coordination from the state regarding the operation.

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

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

Police have charged a suspect in the murder of 21-year-old transgender woman Kier Soloman after a four-years-long ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

Although the city has shuttered free testing sites and stopped distributing free Covid tests, medical professionals continue to take Covid seriously. While the federal Food and Drug Administration ...

A death-row inmate who was set to become the first person in America to be executed in a shaken baby syndrome case was spared ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is searching for a wanted parolee with ties to San Antonio.A warrant has been issued ...