Bloomington police and law enforcement from several states have been searching for the remains of April Pease since she was ...

The House on Wednesday approved the ban, after previously considering proposals to preserve the industry by tightening ...

A Texas man is set to be executed Tuesday night for the death of an elderly clerk he set on fire during a convenience store ...

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Documents state that during the robbery, Matthew Johnson poured lighter fluid over the victim's head, even though she was opening the cash register. The 76-year-old was badly burned but described the ...

Death row inmate Matthew Lee Johnson made a chilling final request to his victim's family after he set elderly woman on fire.

Since Texas lawmakers enacted the junk science law in 2013 giving convicted people a tool to challenge bogus scientific ...

Back in 2011, a sudden change to Texas law meant that death row inmates would no longer be granted their final meal requests.

Johnson, who doused a 76-year-old woman with lighter fluid and set her ablaze, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville on Tuesday.

The Zamfara State government has debunked reports that a lady identified as Miss Zainab Muhamadu is set to stand trial in a ...

Matthew Johnson, 49, was executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville and pronounced dead at 6:53 pm local time (2353 GMT).

Matthew Lee Johnson was executed in Texas on Tuesday for the 2012 murder of 76-year-old Nancy Harris, who was doused with ...