Life inside the Polunsky Unit: What it's like waiting for execution on Texas' death row

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

Limbo on death row: How Texas' capital punishment system works

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...
Dallas Observer

These Texas Women Fight the Death Penalty Outside Huntsville Execution Chamber

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

Double execution: Texas, Alabama execute inmates within minutes of each other

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 ...
UNILAD

Chilling final requests made by infamous death row killers before their execution revealed

The likes of Ronnie Lee Gardner, Ted Bundy, and Nelson Shelton had some interesting final requests before their deaths.
amarillotribune

Brittany Holberg rehearing en banc in appellate court set for January

The en banc court in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will rehear Holberg’s appeal in January. In March, a panel of judges in the Fifth Circuit reversed and vacated Brittany Holberg’s ...

Judge sets Bedford man’s execution date for killings of woman, 8-year-old boy

A jury found Cedric Ricks guilty of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.
The Texan

State Commission Reprimands Harris County Criminal Court Judge in Death Row Case

The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct (SCJC) issued a public reprimand for a Harris County Criminal Court judge who ...