Texas has the third-largest death row population in the country, after California and Florida. In 2000, the Texas death row population peaked with more than 450 people facing execution.

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez. Gutierrez is set to receive a lethal injection on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, at the state ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

The scheduled execution comes amid an elevated number of executions in Florida and nationwide in 2025, and it highlights ongoing legal and political debates about capital punishment, prolonged ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas’ oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago.

Texas’ oldest death row inmate Carl Wayne Buntion was executed Thursday for killing Houston police officer James Irby during a traffic stop.

Criminal Justice Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid ‘evolving standards of decency’ Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Texas death row inmate who confessed to four slayings and at least nine rapes is waiting to see whether the U.S. Supreme Court will halt his Wednesday night execution amid ...

With Alvin Braziel's execution Tuesday night in Huntsville, 13 men have been executed by the state of Texas in 2018 – more than the last two years.

The executions of Oscar Franklin Smith in Tennessee and Carl Wayne Buntion in Texas were set to take place Thursday.

Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez was only 20 minutes away from being executed when the U.S. Supreme Court granted his request to stay his lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville.

Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez was only 20 minutes away from being executed when the U.S. Supreme Court granted his request to stay his lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville.