The appeals court has overturned a lower court’s recommendation for a new trial. The court did not offer an explanation.

James Staley's capital murder conviction was reversed by the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth, and both the prosecution ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals this week denied a major point of appeal in former Waco daycare ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to consider three of five points of appeal in former Waco daycare owner Marian Fraser’s conviction in the 2013 Benadryl overdose ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals re-sentenced a 64-year-old man on death row to life in prison without parole on Wednesday after a state expert confirmed in the trial court that he has an ...

No hearing dates were set in the death penalty case against convicted El Paso serial killer David Leonard Wood.

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded David Leonard Wood's death penalty ... and claims that the state destroyed evidence in violation of due process. Other allegations include that Wood's ...

Dissenting judges expressed frustration over a lack of clarity on why the case of David Leonard Wood, whose execution in March was halted, was remanded to the lower court. In March, death row inmate ...