The Texas Prison Rodeo started in 1931 and featured prison inmates taking part in events each October at a usually packed ...

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

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

In desperation, Joe Exotic appealed to the president, “@realdonaldtrump just let me go to Mexico and you can keep Carole ...

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

A Texas man is facing scheduled execution Tuesday evening, 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set ...

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

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

About 30% of dioceses, Spicer said, reported having at least one religious worker forced to leave the country because of the ...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform ...

A man in Lubbock pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault for 30 years in prison despite originally being charged ...