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

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

Commissioner John Coffee asked Herring and Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas about inmate management and expressed hope for ...

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction ...

“The health and safety of our staff and inmate population is our highest priority,” Haney said.

Officials at an Anderson County prison say water service has been fixed after families of inmates raised concerns.

: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported Tuesday morning that water and water pressure has been restored at the ...

The Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1997 killing in ...

Texas may have found an unlikely ally -- the inmates themselves. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is now looking to expand its Recovery Housing Opportunity Program to facilities across the ...