A man wanted for touching a 7-year-old girl in Texas was previously investigated for several sexual assaults of young girls, police said.

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his own church is facing scheduled execution ...

The State of Texas executed a Black man convicted of killing a pastor during a robbery in 2011, despite his claims that while ...

Texas executes Steven Nelson, convicted for a pastor's 2011 murder, amidst debates on capital punishment ethics.

Faced with more immediate funding needs, state officials haven’t asked for more money for rehabilitation programs, such as ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Texas executed Steven Lawayne Nelson for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, with AG Ken Paxton stating that justice was ...

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The Justice Department’s move to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams is just the latest in a series of dismissals in high-profile criminal cases.

Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...