New video shows a first look at a teenage couple accused of killing the girl's grandmother in Bacliff last week. They're both charged with capital murder and credit or debit card abuse.

Court documents are giving us more details as to what led up to the arrest of two teenagers accused in a woman’s murder in Bacliff.

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

A 17-year-old and her 18-year-old boyfriend were arrested in Texas on Sunday after a grandmother was found dead.

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Texas death row inmate Steve Nelson was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday night, closing his final words with an ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...