Gov. Greg Abbott and Houston Mayor John Whitmire are taking action to address homelessness in two major cities in Texas after ...

A jury found Cedric Ricks guilty of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.

Police have charged a suspect in the murder of 21-year-old transgender woman Kier Soloman after a four-years-long ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

Two Texas Department of Criminal Justice officers in Potter County have been arrested and are facing felony charges.

A state law shields its source of pentobarbital, the sedative used in lethal injections. But documents reviewed by NBC News ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is searching for a wanted parolee with ties to San Antonio.A warrant has been issued ...

An East Texas veteran received a life-changing companion this weekend thanks to a special program from Rusk County Pets Alive ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

A death-row inmate who was set to become the first person in America to be executed in a shaken baby syndrome case was spared ...

Suicides and homicides are already rising in Texas prisons. Restricting visits and communication will only deepen despair, ...