Texas currently only has one other execution scheduled. Matthew Johnson, whose execution is set for May 20, was convicted of ...

A Texas man is facing execution for the strangling and stabbing death of a young North Texas mother more than 20 years ago ...

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

It took over 40 years to identify Walker County Jane Doe, who was brutally slayed in Huntsville, Texas. However, her killer ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849, and houses Texas' execution chamber. Two-third of state-run jails and prisons in Texas are not fulled air conditioned. Inmates rights groups are suing to change ...

Law enforcement officers served seven felony arrest warrants related to an alleged conspiracy among correctional staff and ...

A years-long fight over the temperature inside Texas prisons has entered a new phase ... former inmate who sued TDCJ over conditions in his Huntsville cell, where temperatures regularly reached ...

“It sends an incredibly powerful message.” FILE – An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas ...

"It's influential,” Kendrick said. An inmate works outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015. Credit: AP/Rose Baca Texas has more than ...