Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

A Houston man who had been convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing but was later eliminated as the killer by DNA evidence was declared innocent on Wednesday by Texas’ highest criminal court.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the national ACLU, the Texas Civil Rights Project, and criminal defense attorneys Alison Grinter and Kim Cole have filed a petition requesting the Court of Criminal Appeals, Texas’s highest criminal court, to review the case of Crystal Mason, a Fort Worth woman challenging her conviction of illegal voting.

A new judge has been assigned to death row inmate Rodney Reed’s case, one week after the highest criminal court in Texas canceled his execution scheduled this month.

Rodney Reed was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday, but instead, he was granted the reprieve he and his legal team have fought for.

A Texas man previously freed after spending 15 years in prison for the 2001 killing of a teenager has been formally exonerated. The Dallas County district attorney’s office says the state’s top criminal court issued a ruling of “actual innocence” Monday in the case of Quintin Lee Alonzo.

The Houston Police Department has unveiled a new crime lab in a move to speed up service and shed its scandal-ridden past linked to a backlog of rape kits.

An appeals court has granted a stay of execution for a Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than 20 years ago as part of an attempt to steal more than $600,000 she had hidden in her home.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected a lower court recommendation that a convicted killer’s death sentence be changed to life in prison because prosecutors lied during the case.

A Jewish death row inmate who was part of the “Texas 7” gang of escaped prisoners and faced execution in less than a week has won a reprieve after claiming the former judge at his trial was anti-Semitic and frequently used racial slurs.

An appeals court has granted a stay of execution for a Texas inmate who was facing lethal injection next week for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son in 2005.

More than 100 Jewish attorneys from around Texas named in a court document supporting a new trial for Randy Halprin, one of the two surviving Texas Seven members awaiting execution.

More than 100 Jewish attorneys from around Texas named in a court document supporting a new trial for Randy Halprin, one of the two surviving Texas Seven members awaiting execution.

A former Houston-area high school football coach is being tried for the second time in the killing of his pregnant wife 20 years ago.

Special prosecutors who’ve spent nearly four years trying to bring Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to trial on securities fraud charges are facing another setback that has thrown the case into new uncertainty.

An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man. John William King, who was white, received lethal injection for the slaying nearly 21 years ago of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged for...

A state appeals court has halted this week’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate condemned for the slaying of an 81-year-old woman nearly 30 years ago.

A district attorney says a review of a former Texas death row inmate’s case has determined he is innocent of fatally shooting a Houston police officer nearly 16 years ago.

Texas’ highest criminal court has struck down a key provision of the state’s open meeting laws as “unconstitutionally vague.”

After more than 31 years of being considered a murderer in the eyes of the law, Steven Chaney and his family are relieved now that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has declared him “actually innocent.”

After more than 31 years of being considered a murderer in the eyes of the law, Steven Chaney and his family are relieved now that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has declared him “actually innocent.”