The Texas man convicted of kidnapping and murdering a retired 77-year-old Texas Christian University professor in 2004 has ...

Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of ...

Texas also saw counties set the fewest new execution dates in at least three decades, according to an annual report by the ...

Texas' execution numbers remain far lower than recent state highs, even as executions nationally climbed, driven almost ...

Edward Busby, 53, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on May 14, 2026, in Huntsville. He was condemned by a ...

Edward Lee Busby Jr., 53, who was sentenced to death in 2005, will be executed on May 14, 2026, a court order said.

Roberson, who has faced execution multiple times but maintained his innocence, has been on death row since his 2003 capital murder conviction.

Last year, Robert Roberson came within hours of dying before a legislative subpoena forestalled his execution date. This year ...

It’s been 148 days since Texas executed someone—a remarkable lull in the use of the death penalty for a state that has killed far more people than any other. The 2016 hiatus is, in part, a sign of the ...

FILE – The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. Texas continued a long-term downward trend in capital punishment in ...