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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...