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.

Massachusetts court rules Karen Read can be retried for murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of boyfriend's death.

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

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office says an inmate died after an attempted suicide over the weekend. According to the sheriff ...

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

Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed - Steven Lawayane Nelson was the second person executed in ...

There is no doubt that Richard Tabler shot and killed four people within two days in Killeen, Texas. But is he ultimately ...

The bluebonnet is the State Flower of Texas. The state legislature began debating the issue in 1901, settling on the ...

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

Michael Scott is the Texas Department of Public Safety 's fugitive of the month- and the crimes he allegedly committed are chilling. NOTE: Subject should be considered armed and dangerous.

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, ...