Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Men in Texas prisons are now entering the fourth week of a hunger strike in Texas prisons. It’s part of a larger effort to reform the harsh conditions of solitary confinement.

An organizer alleged the prison was retaliating by interfering with the inmates' attempts to contact the outside world.

The federal government has largely avoided pursuing the death penalty under President Biden.

A report last month found lapses in the state’s ankle monitor policies, which it said led to the three deaths, including a shooting inside Dallas Methodist Medical Center that killed two.

Barbee, convicted in the 2005 murders of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her child, was unable to straighten his arms, which caused the delay. Courts allowed Barbee’s execution despite concerns from his lawyer that his disability would make the process “torture.”

Nestor Hernandez, the parolee accused of killing two people at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, had an ankle monitor but got permission to be at the hospital Saturday.

Mike and Mark Sheppard, both charged in the shooting death of a migrant man in Hudspeth County, were released from jail on bond Monday night, the county sheriff’s office said.

Sunset Advisory commission met to discuss the fate of the system that the interim director said was "collapsing."

The Department of Justice says the weapons illegally sold by Demontre Antwon Hackworth, 31, were later used in over a dozen crimes, including the killing of a 21-year-old Black transgender woman.

The review came after Gonzalo Lopez escaped on May 12 and eventually killed five people.

The review comes after Gonzalo Lopez escaped from a prison bus last month. Authorities say he killed a family of five before they found and killed him.

The 78-year-old Carl Wayne Buntion died by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering Houston police officer James Irby during a traffic stop in 1990.