The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...

If all executions scheduled through March 20 take place, nine people will have been executed in the first three months of the ...

Raymond Lee Trejo, a convicted sex offender on Texas' 10 Most Wanted list, was captured in Stilwell, Oklahoma, on March 12, ...

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