An anti-death penalty group is calling for Texas Gov. Gina Hinojosa to stop all executions in Texas.

The Reverend Jeff Hood urged Texas' governor-elect to do everything she can to slow the pace of executions after taking ...

Texas governors can't unilaterally commute death sentences. However, they can appoint members to the Texas Board of Pardons ...

Texas is trying to block death row inmate Dexter Johnson from pursuing an intellectual disability claim.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Guerrero v. Johnson, a Texas capital case determining whether death-row ...

Can a death row inmate get a second shot at appeal because the diagnostic manual changed? The Supreme Court just debated it.

Author Lawrence Wright thought he knew the Texas justice system. But a closer look at the lives of women on death row made him question who deserves the death penalty.

A man convicted of murdering three people in their apartment while searching for drugs to steal was executed in Texas on Wednesday evening, a week after his accomplice was put to death for the same ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the case Guerrero v. Johnson, which contemplates whether an inmate on death row can bring a second round of federal appeals challenging his ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether Texas death row inmate Dexter Johnson may pursue a constitutional ...