Carlos Ayala Morales got out of prison last year after serving time for child sex assault but was never registered as a sex offender. DPS blames human error.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

The jury announced its verdict on Nov. 8 following a four-day trial, prosecutors said. Caleb Pickens, 25, was found guilty of ...

A New York doctor’s alleged decision to send abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana has pitted the Empire State’s ...

Richard Lee Tabler was condemned for the Thanksgiving 2004 shooting deaths of Mohammed-Amine Rahmouni, 28, and Haitham Zayed, ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put ...

Records show an arrested Lubbock State Supported Living Center employee is accused of breaking the jaw of a 36-year-old resident who died days later.

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Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple's toddler was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year.

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

In 2008 he called then-state Sen. John Whitmire multiple times, prompting a massive prison lockdown and search for contraband ...