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 ...

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 has remanded the case of a death row inmate back to trial court. David Leonard Wood was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killings of six women and girls in El ...

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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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals hears oral arguments Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in a case involving former Washington County judicial candidate Robbie Gail Charette. The Texas Court of Criminal ...

AUSTIN, Texas — On Wednesday, Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson filed his first appeal since his execution was delayed in October. The appeal includes new reports from experts saying Roberson’s ...

David Schenck, the new presiding judge on Texas’ Court of Criminal Appeals, is on a mission to make sweeping changes to the rules governing judicial elections in the Lone Star State. Right now, ...