Jason Alan Thornburg showed no emotion as the judge read his death sentence aloud. A few jurors, who had decided the ...

On the same day that President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of seven Texans, Gov. Greg Abbott issued his own set of ...

If, for example, the Texas Supreme Court repeatedly enjoined a scheduled execution and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals repeatedly rejected challenges to the same execution, there would be no ...

Only Texas has carried out more executions since Oklahoma resumed lethal injections three years ago. Oklahoma started doing ...

The Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence issued their first subpoena for Roberson to testify one day before his scheduled execution — an unprecedent legal maneuver that successfully ...

Four executions, including two from North Texas, are scheduled for early 2025, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, is scheduled to be executed on ...

Texas’ attorney general is again trying to block a man on death row from giving testimony at the state Capitol.

WHAT EXECUTIONS ARE SCHEDULED IN TEXAS? Four executions, including two from North Texas, are scheduled for early 2025, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Steven Lawayne Nelson ...

A new execution date for Roberson has not been set. Phillip McGraw, testifies during a committee hearing in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson at the Texas State Capitol in Austin ...

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