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A man who had been on Texas’ death row for nearly 30 years after being convicted in the killings of his girlfriend and her two sons has died of natural causes, a spokesperson for the state prison system said Thursday. Henry “Hank” Skinner, 60, died Thursday afternoon at a hospital in Galveston, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Robert Hurst.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is seeking a pause in executions and ordering a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.

Stephen Barbee, 55, was executed Wednesday at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

A Texas inmate whose lawyers say has a history of mental illness faces execution on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body in her backyard nearly 20 years ago.

Attorneys for Alan Eugene Miller say prison officials were “stabbing around his veins” for over an hour and left him hanging vertically on a gurney before calling off the execution.

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.

A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.

A man on Oklahoma death row for a cold-case killing, but serving a sentence in Texas, pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of two Texas girls whose disappearances went unsolved for decades

Self-described death penalty supporter Rep. Kevin McDugle said he believes a death row inmate is innocent following the release of a report done by a Houston law firm

With Melissa Lucio’s execution put on indefinite hold by a Texas appeals court, her attorneys will now be focused on trying to convince a judge to recommend she get a new trial.

There are just four days to go until a Texas mother, convicted for fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter, will be put to death and calls for it to be stopped only continue to grow. In cities stretching from the east coast to the west coast, and in North Texas, advocates rallied in a national day of support for Melissa Lucio.

High above one of Dallas’ busiest interchanges, supporters of Melissa Lucio dropped a banner Saturday as part of a last-ditch rallying cry.

Melissa Lucio, a Texas mother on death row, now there are growing calls to halt the April 27 scheduled execution to consider new evidence.

Texas’ oldest death row inmate faces execution Thursday for killing a Houston police officer nearly 32 years ago during a traffic stop.

The family of Melissa Lucio planned a rally outside Dallas City Hall on Thursday, part of a statewide campaign to draw attention to Lucio’s case and collect petition signatures urging Texas Governor Greg Abbott to spare her life.

A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers on Wednesday visited a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.