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 ...

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.

As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.

Taylor Parker is set to become the seventh and youngest woman on Death Row in Texas for the murder of a New Boston mother and kidnapping of her unborn baby from her womb. Here is a look at life on ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of capital punishment in 1976, Texas has put 593 inmates to death. Lisa Coleman, 38, was the last woman put to death in Texas, via a ...

A federal appeals court has reversed the murder conviction of a 52-year-old Texas woman who has been on death row for close to three decades.. In 1998, Brittany Marlowe Holberg was found guilty by ...

The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals court ruled that she received an unfair trial in 1996 after being ...