Executions

Thursday's ruling was clear, and close to unanimous, with only Justice Clarence Thomas in dissent.

An appeals court ruled last summer that the original trial judge did not secure an impartial jury for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The U.S. has asked the Supreme Court to review the decision.

Texas led the U.S. in the number of executions in 2019, carrying out nine of the 22 that occurred nationwide. A new report reveals Texas is more on par…

Texas’ top appeals court on Friday halted the scheduled execution of inmate Rodney Reed, whose conviction is being questioned by new evidence that his…

For decades, a staunch claim of innocence and doubts over forensic science engulfed the death penalty case of Larry Swearingen. On Wednesday, he was…

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer share the last written words of death row inmates after criticism from a Houston…

From Texas Standard:Texas news outlets often report on death penalty stories, given that the state leads the nation in prisoner executions. But rarely do…

It’s been more than two decades since an infamous hate crime in East Texas, where three white men were convicted of chaining a black man to the back of a…

From Texas Standard.Texas has been fighting to keep a secret for years now – the name of the pharmacy that supplies its execution drugs. But late last…

From Texas Standard:Following the execution of a Dallas man last week, the status of the state's supply of execution drugs is under new scrutiny. In a…