Death Penalty

A new report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty finds the state’s death row population dropped to 199 this year. New death sentences and executions also remained near historic lows.

There are 56,000 people in the United States serving life-without-parole sentences who don’t get the same legal defense or opportunities to appeal as those facing execution.

On Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999.

Jones was sentenced to death in 2001 in Tarrant County after he fatally beat his great-aunt, 83-year-old Berthena Bryant, with a baseball bat. But two relatives say they’ve forgiven him and want his sentence commuted to life in prison.

Former prosecutors and judges say Toforest Johnson's murder conviction was based on shaky evidence. The case is getting a new look as district attorneys review the integrity of past prosecutions.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals resentenced Juan Lizcano to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He is at least the fifth death row inmate whose sentence was reduced after the U.S. Supreme Court slammed Texas' methods for determining intellectual disability.

Wesley Purkey was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, the second federal execution this week after a 17-year hiatus. The high court's 5-4 decision allowed the execution to proceed.

A fifth scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate has been delayed because of the coronavirus spread around the state.Carlos Treviño's execution,…

Texas is preparing to execute Abel Ochoa on Thursday for fatally shooting his family members in their living room.In 2002, Ochoa walked out of his Dallas…

Texas, the state that has put to death more people than any other by far, is scheduled to carry out the nation’s first execution of the decade…

Authorities said they will begin the process to exonerate a Houston man who was convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing that investigators now believe was…

Texas officials didn't dispute that prosecutors introduced false testimony at Travis Runnels’ 2005 capital murder trial in Amarillo. Instead, they argued…