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The Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence summoned Roberson to testify about his case, which successfully stayed his October execution with help from the Texas Supreme Court. But the high court says the House overstepped it's authority.

Texas has executed 588 people since 1982—all by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit. This is more than any other state in the country. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies was a witness for the most recent Texas execution. He has this reflection.

Robert Roberson is facing execution by lethal injection on Oct. 17, 2024, for the death of his two-year-old daughter. However, his attorneys say there is new evidence that proves he's innocent.

An anti-death penalty organization is calling for a full investigation into a San Antonio-based compounding pharmacy that supplies Texas with its execution drug.

Death penalty researchers say the record-high number of mishandled executions put into question states' ability to perform them.

Ramirez was sentenced to death for murdering Corpus Christi convenience store clerk Pablo Castro. After a previous execution was halted, Ramirez won a Supreme Court case over death row inmates’ religious rights.

Melissa Lucio, who was set to be executed on Wednesday, has been granted a stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday.

The fate of death row inmate Rodney Reed has been placed in Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s hands.The Texas parole board voted unanimously Friday to…

Texas death row inmate Larry Swearingen was executed Wednesday evening for the 1998 murder of Melissa Trotter. She was a 19-year-old student at Lone Star…

Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed Wednesday by the State of Texas.It was 19 years ago that Swearingen was convicted of the abduction, rape and…