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 has been arrested after allegedly confessing to sexually abusing a child.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

An East Texas veteran received a life-changing companion this weekend thanks to a special program from Rusk County Pets Alive ...