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

An execution date has been set for the man convicted of killing an elderly Garland convenience store clerk by setting her on fire more than a decade ago. Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, is scheduled to be ...

A federal judge set a trial date in the legal battle by El Paso County over the Texas state immigration law, SB 4.

The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes cases involving guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, ...

President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the many actions he has taken in just the first few weeks of his second White ...

An appeals court Texas launched in September to hear complex business matters and litigation involving the state instead is ...

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

Lawmakers posed the move, which would require approval in both Congress and at a convention of states, as a reply to ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon agreed to pause the briefing in a challenge to a Biden-era rule intended to streamline the process for reviewing requests for student loan forgiveness from ...

Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz is reintroducing a constitutional amendment to cap the number of justices on the Supreme Court at ...

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

ARLINGTON, Texas - A man on death row for killing a North Texas pastor was executed Wednesday evening in Huntsville. Activists called for Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution but were not ...