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

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

The Supreme Court declined to step in but Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Gov. Greg Abbott to issue a 30-day reprieve.

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on April 16 overturned the murder conviction of a Corpus Christi man on the grounds that false evidence had led to his lifetime prison sentence for the 2002 ...

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Exonerees are urging the Texas courts to halt the execution of Robert Roberson and review new evidence in his case, warning ...