In grainy video footage of an interrogation, a Texas Ranger grills Melissa Lucio, a forty-year-old mother who is slumped in a chair, with an exhausted and vacant look in her eyes. “Show me how ...

Right now there are six more women on death row in Texas along with 247 men. The women include Kimberly Cargill, Melissa Lucio, Linda Carty, Brittany Holberg, Darlie Routier, and Erica Yvonne ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeals of seven Mexican-born prisoners condemned to die in Texas, including two who had committed murders in Houston in the 1990s.

Melissa Lucio is set to be executed on April 27 for the 2007 death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah. AP A Texas woman convicted of killing her two-year-old daughter in 2007 made a last-ditch ...

Edelmira Arias is comforted while weeping at the home of the parents of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo, her cousin, in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014.

Attorneys for a woman on death row in Texas asked to have her upcoming execution date withdrawn or modified, saying her 2-year-old daughter's death in 2007 was accidental and she was coerced into ...

A Mexican national on Texas death row for the rape-slaying of his 16-year-old cousin in the Rio Grande Valley more than 20 years ago has received an execution date.

After more than two decades on Texas death row, a Mexican national convicted of killing three teens in El Paso died in bed early Sunday of cardiac arrest, a prison spokesman confirmed. Officials ...

HOUSTON - A Mexican national on Texas death row for a gruesome slaying of a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio 15 years ago has lost a federal appeal. Humberto Leal, now 36, argued he should have ...

The Supreme Court on Monday turned aside an appeal by a Mexican citizen on death row who contended he and others like him should have their sentences overturned because they were denied legal help ...