On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

Texas carried out the nation’s first execution of the year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and ...

To say that being alive right now is stressful would be an extreme understatement. So in times like this, when something comes along that just really tugs at your heartstrings and speaks to the ...

Until federal immigration agents declared the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi a deportable alien, the Kenyan native was working as a Texas prison guard, with his employment authorization vetted by the ...

At 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, Charles Victor Thompson became the first Texas death row inmate to be executed in 2026. Thompson, 55, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TENNESSEE COLONY, Texas (KETK) – Five staff members from the George Beto Unit state prison near Tennessee Colony have been ...

A Texas man is facing execution for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ago in suburban ...

A Michigan man has been linked to a murder at a storage facility in Texas, and while we have some details from court ...

Read full article: Man fatally shot in La Marque early Saturday morning, suspect at large Harris County Sheriff's Office says two suspects, Joseph Plattenberg and Jordyn Wells, were arrested and ...

Legendary movie director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, wanted to screen "Stand by Me" at a state prison in Brazoria County days before they were found killed in their Los Angeles home, according ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A multi-state and international investigation has led to a 20-year prison sentence for an Ohio man who exploited children online, including a 13-year-old girl in the Houston ...

Nanon Williams was sent to death row for a murder he says he didn't commit. Decades later, through daily emails and weekly prison calls, the Reiners became family. Less than 36 hours before they were ...