If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Thousands of Philadelphians are expected to gather along 52nd Street in West Philadelphia Sunday to see colorful parade floats and notable Black figures in celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday that ...

Scott Panetti had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid delusions, depression and insomnia. His case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Flores, who maintains his innocence and has for 25 years, was sentenced to death row in 1999 after the 1998 murder of Betty Black, who was shot and killed in her Farmers Branch home during a robbery.

CBS News Texas Live. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose bid for a new trial drew the support of the prosecutor's office that originally put him on ...

A December jury trial has been set in Galveston County for Channel Yonko, a Houston woman charged with capital murder in connection to the death of her infant daughter. The trial will take place ...

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Holberg was sentenced to death by an Amarillo jury when she was 23 years old. The jury found her guilty of murdering A.B. Towery, an 80-year-old man and former client of Holberg, a sex worker.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who was made a cardinal in 2007 and who led the U.S. bishops’ conference as president from 2016–2019, turned 75 in May 2024.