While Harris County DA Sean Teare blames Republicans for bail failures, Sen. Joan Huffman notes the Texas Senate is ...

The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records ...

That informant recanted her testimony in 2011, but neither a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ... cast Holberg's case as a blight on the criminal justice system. A federal appeals court has ...

Frustration grows for the mother of one of the victims found in a Northeast El Paso desert as the man convicted in the slayings avoided execution.

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website. In Texas, from 1819 to 1923, people in Texas were put to death by hanging. In 1923, according to the Texas Department of Criminal ...

That system is not the norm in Texas, where 156 rural counties are ... a law professor and director of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

The U.S. Department of Justice found that children in Texas’ juvenile prisons were exposed to excessive force, sexual abuse ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked ... this isn’t called the criminal justice system for nothing. There is no victim’s justice system.” Fulton asked for the community to come ...