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Attorney General Ken Paxton has requested death row inmate Robert Roberson, whose execution date was delayed last year after ...
A request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to set a new execution date for death row inmate Robert Roberson will be ...
A hearing that could set a new execution date for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson will be held next week. Roberson was ...
Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...
Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two decades. Texas’ male death ...
As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.
A court in Texas has thrown out the death sentence of convicted killer Raymond Riles, who has spent more than 40 years on the state’s death row.
A Texas death row inmate with a long history of mental illness, and who tried to call Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy as trial witnesses, is not competent to be executed, a federal judge ruled.
David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.
A death row inmate set for execution in Texas this week says he is not the same man he was when he raped and killed an 18-year-old woman in 2001. Ramiro Gonzales, 41, is set to be executed ...
Beverly Hills, 90210 star Ian Ziering breaks silence on Shannen Doherty’s death one year later ...
Riles, the longest-serving inmate on the Texas death row, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1974 shooting death of Houston used car dealer John Thomas Henry during a robbery.