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

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

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

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) inmate called in a bomb threat to the Hillsboro Elementary School, according to ...

Lawmakers passed 79-39 House Bill 3006 by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg. If the Legislature or the federal government allocates ...

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly ...

State-run prisons would be required to have air conditioning by the end of 2032 under a bill advanced by the Texas House on ...

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

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

In Texas, race and income often determine who receives the toughest sentences for similar crimes, raising concerns about ...

Matthew Lee Johnson, 49, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.

Authorities say the threat was made by an inmate at the TDCJ facility in Tennessee Colony and that the incident is an ...