Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas voted against stopping ... As a result of Thursday’s decision, Murphy will be returned to death row. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said ...

While on a 24-hour leave from the Army, Houston Astros pitcher Private Larry Dierker outlasted Steve Carlton for a 2-1 win ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Matthew Johnson, who testified he did not intend to kill the elderly ...

Recommended Videos Death row inmate Matthew Johnson was executed Tuesday evening for killing a woman he set on fire during a robbery in 2012 in Texas’ fourth execution this year. Johnson ...

NPR's John Burnett reports on the case of Cesar Fierro, a Mexican national who is on death row for killing an El ... that the confession was coerced. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled ...

Linda talks to Christy Hope, a reporter for the Dallas Morning News, in Austin, Texas about the case, and the state's process for deciding whether death row cases deserve reconsideration.

For some lawmakers, Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson became the face of that failure. On Wednesday, the Texas House sought to rectify those shortcomings. Lawmakers preliminarily approved, 118 to ...

The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. A Texas man sentenced to death row with the help of “hypnotized ...