The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli Escobar, despite support for a new ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

What crimes qualify for the death penalty in Texas? Who decides whether to pursue the death penalty? Here's everything to ...

Areli Escobar was convicted and sentenced to death for the sexual assault and murder of 17-year-old Bianca Maldonado.

On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987. “I’m accused of killing six people when an ...

The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of ...

The Supreme Court for a second time intervened over a Texas death row inmate who claims his murder conviction should be ...