Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons whose populations have continued to grow after dip ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies ...

If Selena had confronted her differently, this never would have happened,” a family member of Yolanda Saldívar.

Randy Halprin, one of the 'Texas 7' death row inmates convicted of killing an Irving police officer after escaping from ...

O’Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the top three in imposing death sentences.

Texas is not soft on crime. It has seen the execution of 600 prisoners in the past 40 years, including two so far this year – ...

(From left) Defense attorney Phillip Hayes sits with Texas Seven member Randy Halprin ... the execution of the man who masterminded the prison break, which may disqualify him from the case.

Yolanda Saldívar, the killer of Selena Quintanilla who feels like a "political prisoner," is preparing for her parole ...