State Rep. Cody Harris, R-Palestine, filed House Bill 2171 on Jan. 28. According to the text, if approved, the board of trustees of a school district or the board of a charter school would have to ...

Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard from a lawyer for Valley man Ruben Gutierrez who is on death row. A jury sentenced him to death for the 1998 Brownsville ...

The justices reversed a lower court’s decision that had upheld Glossip’s conviction despite his allegations that prosecutors ...

The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Texas death penalty case against Ruben Gutierrez on Monday. Gutierrez was ...

The Supreme Court appeared swayed by a Texas death row inmate’s argument he has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws ...

Gutierrez was condemned for the 1998 stabbing of Escolastica Harrison at her home in Brownsville, on the state’s southern tip ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson has filed an appeal for a new trial. Roberson was convicted of murdering his ...

Attorneys for Anderson County death row inmate Rodney Roberson have filed a petition with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ...

The new appeal includes a statement from ten independent pathologists that says the 2002 autopsy is "deeply flawed and ...

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