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A Texas man convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl who was taken from a Walmart store nearly 22 years ago and burning her body was executed Thursday evening.

A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false and unscientific expert testimony was executed Thursday evening for killing a man during a robbery decades ago.

Less than five hours before his scheduled execution in Texas an appeals court granted a stay for William Speer.

A Texas death row inmate with a long history of mental illness, and who tried to call Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy as trial witnesses, is not competent to be executed, a federal judge ruled.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says Billy Chemirmir was killed by his cellmate at the Coffield Correctional Facility near Palestine. An investigation into his death is now underway. NBC 5’s Katy Blakey reports, for victims’ families, the news brought complex emotions.

Billy Chemirmir, a man convicted of killing two people and accused in the deaths of nearly two dozen others, was found dead in his cell in a Texas state prison early Tuesday morning, NBC 5 has learned.

Billy Chemirmir, a man convicted of killing two people and accused in the deaths of nearly two dozen others, has died in a state prison, NBC 5 has learned.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is completing all statewide lockdowns as searches complete.

The department said it is implementing a systemwide lockdown in order to conduct comprehensive contraband searches at correctional facilities in Texas.

Fire broke out Friday morning at a state prison in Texas, forcing more than 650 inmates to evacuate but injuring no one, an official said.

The state of Texas is questioning the legal rights of an “unborn child” in arguing against a lawsuit brought by a prison guard who says she had a stillborn baby because prison officials refused to let her leave work.

Data shows that Texas inmates and prison staff are, at times, exposed to dangerous levels of heat in the majority of the state’s unairconditioned jails and prisons.

The indoor temperature in at least 15 state-run jails and prisons exceeded 100 degrees last summer, according to data obtained by The Dallas Morning News.

We’re getting our first look at the state prison mugshot for Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth police officer sentenced to nearly 12 years behind bars for killing Atatiana Jefferson.

Ex-Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been transferred to Huntsville where he’ll begin serving his nearly 12-year sentence after being convicted of manslaughter in the 2019 killing of Atatiana Jefferson.

Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been transferred to a state prison in Huntsville.

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.

Texas prison system officials say they’re resuming inmate transportation with tougher security after a convicted murderer escaped a prison bus and killed five people.

A Texas grandfather and his four grandsons killed by a prison escapee died from gunshots, sharp force injuries and stab wounds, a medical examiner’s report said.

Texas’ prison system has temporarily stopped transporting inmates as it investigates how a convicted murderer escaped from a bus last month and later killed a man and his four grandsons.