The Texas Attorney General’s Office filed a rehearing petition to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for a rehearing in the case against Brittany Holberg. Towery murder still haunts ...

Recently, it made its way back into the news as Brittany Holberg saw her ... and Holberg was taken off of death row, and in theory, set Holberg free. Now we have a new development in the case. The ...

Another Texas death row case from the late 1990s is facing scrutiny as laws and science evolve, questioning if the state got it right in the capital murder case of Charles Flores. Flores ...

Kelly, who took office in January 2021, and McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens, who took office in January 2023, ...

The latest request for a death sentence came May 21. Prosecutors asked for that punishment for a drifter who is suspected of ...

Back in 2011, a sudden change to Texas law meant that death row inmates would no longer be granted their final meal requests. The controversial decision was fronted by one of the southern state's ...

HOUSTON, Texas – Clarence Jordan, 68, has been on death row for nearly half a century, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is now being asked to overturn his death sentence. Jordan was first ...

Last year, lawmakers waded into a dramatic feud over the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, seen as the embodiment of the failures of Texas’ junk science law. Former Detective Brian ...

Nineteen people have been removed from death row in Texas since 2017 due to evidence of intellectual disability. More than one-third of those cases were tried in Harris County, Cuellar said.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that a man on death row has exhausted all his legal remedies and set an execution date, yet the U.S. Supreme Court has not responded to a petition to ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, is on death row in Mississippi and scheduled for execution on June 25th for a 1976 murder. The state argues Jordan has exhausted his appeals and the Supreme Court lacks ...