A Mexican national has been arrested in Temple on criminal charges related to her alleged possession of a fraudulent ...

Passed yesterday by the Texas House, Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 5 is a constitutional amendment that would expand the ...

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As clips of Texas lawmakers breaking gavels go viral on social media, the Statesman set about to find out where they're made.

James Edward Smith was sentenced to death by lethal injection in June 1990 following the murder of life insurance worker ...

Melissa Lucio waits as Texas court considers overturning her conviction after evidence was withheld in her 2007 death row ...

Death row inmate Matthew Johnson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening for killing a woman he set on fire during a ...

Henry Lee Hyde, II, has been sentenced to 10 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for evading arrest or ...

A Texas death row inmate, 49-year-old Matthew Johnson, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening. He was convicted of ...

In Texas, people want to see fairness when it comes to crime and punishment. Justice should treat everyone equally, regardless of who they are or where they come from. But what if the system isn't as ...

Texas on Tuesday is set to execute Matthew Johnson, a Dallas County man who admitted to killing a 76-year-old convenience ...

Matthew Lee Johnson was convicted of killing Nancy Harris in Garland, Texas in May 2012. Harris died five days after Johnson ...