In the lead-up to the Nov. 5 election, Attorney General Ken Paxton ramped up efforts to put his imprint on rules governing ...

Yolanda Saldívar, the woman who killed Tejano music singer Selena Quintanilla Perez, has officially filed for parole for the ...

Saldívar, now 64 years-old, was sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 26, 1995, with the possibility of parole after 30 years.

A Texas death penalty case is explore in the Oscar-contending short documentary 'I Am Ready, Warden,' directed by Smriti ...

The number of in-custody deaths at the Harris County Jail has steadily decreased over the last few years. Back in 2022, at ...

Erin Whaley, Tammy Ward Woffenden and Paul M. Mahoney Jr. of Troutman Pepper Locke LLP discuss key market and legal ...

Due to a 2024 policy change by the state, nonprofits that have sent free books to prisoners for over 50 years can’t serve ...

Abbott originally appointed Blacklock to the high court as the Place 2 justice in 2018. Abbott's general counsel James ...

As crime expands in at least 22 states by confirmed Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members, Texas law enforcement ...

Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a conservative ally of Gov. Greg Abbott, has been named the new chief justice of the Texas Supreme ...

Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Justice Jimmy Blacklock as the new chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, succeeding Nathan ...

SHERMAN – Authorities have been inspecting piles of debris between FM 697 and the site where an 8-year-old Oklahoma girl was swept away in floodwaters after her family's vehicle crashed into a ...