But in recent years, Dallas County has moved away from seeking the death penalty in capital cases. Only three new death ...

Gloria Rubac remembers the thick crowd, primarily composed of students from Sam Houston State University, and the way they cheered outside the red-brick Texas State Penitentiary as the sun set. Having ...

Texas death row inmates have waited over 25 years after committing violent crimes. Here’s who they are and why they remain ...

Only a tiny fraction of those condemned to death in the United States are women. Yet their stories reveal how gender, trauma, and systemic bias combine to influence who receives the death penalty and ...

Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin, whose death penalty conviction in the rape and murder of two teen girls sparked international controversy, was put to death in Texas on Tuesday night, prison ...

Death row inmates are executed at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, which is also known as the "Walls Unit. (Annie Mulligan For The Texas Tribune, Annie Mulligan For The Texas Tribune) Sign ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...