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Today on Texas Matters—In 2022, 53 migrants were found dead in the back of a trailer. New details about that deadly journey are emerging. Also—David Leonard Wood is being called the 'Desert Killer.' Now he is facing execution. But there are questions about his guilt.

The new year could be a year of increased use of the death penalty across the United States which contrasts with how 2024 was a year that saw big gains in the effort to reduce executions. On January 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at reinstating and expanding the use of the federal death penalty.

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.

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.