The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new ...

Brittany Holberg’s murder conviction has been passed down to the district court after the prosecution failed to provide a key ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

What crimes qualify for the death penalty in Texas? Who decides whether to pursue the death penalty? Here's everything to ...

Areli Escobar was convicted and sentenced to death for the sexual assault and murder of 17-year-old Bianca Maldonado.

On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Convicted killer David Leonard Wood poses for a photo at death row ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of ...

The Supreme Court for a second time intervened over a Texas death row inmate who claims his murder conviction should be ...