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

Death row inmate Matthew Johnson is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening for killing a woman he set on fire during a robbery in 2012 in what will be ...

Vehicle pursuits and the resulting “bailouts” played a major role in school officials' and law enforcement’s response to the ...

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

A prisoner who has been rotting inside a sweltering Texas prison for the past 16 years fears he "won't make it out alive" ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The 90th Judicial District Attorney’s Office has announced the following lists of cases that were pleaded in February, March and April 2025.

The Texas House has passed a bill that would require state prisons to have air conditioning. The bill would require the Texas ...