Brown was freed from nearly a decade on death row in 2015, but because he was never declared "actually innocent," he couldn't get compensation for wrongful imprisonment — until Friday.

As the state put the 70-year-old to death, his son banged on the death chamber window. After an altercation with law enforcement, Coble's son and another relative were removed from the witness room and arrested.

The chairs of two House committees signed on as joint authors of a bill that would set the method of determining if a capital murder defendant is intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for execution.

A recent in-custody death report said an inmate died from hyperthermia in July, but Texas prison officials said he was in an air-conditioned cell.

This time, the majority of the justices said Moore has shown he is intellectually disabled.

In the wake of a midterm election that saw four major state appeals courts flip on partisan lines, Hecht called on lawmakers to consider changing Texas to a system of merit selection and retention elections.

Two years after a bail reform bill died in the Legislature, new bail legislation has other factors working in its favor.

Nearly two decades after the U.S. Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to execute those with intellectual disabilities, Texas still has no process on determining the condition — leaving life-and-death decisions in the hands of courts with very different methods.

Jennings was put to death Wednesday for the 1988 murder of Elston Howard. The long sentence was complicated by constantly evolving death penalty laws.

Justices questioned whether revealing the name would risk physical harm to the supplier — or only hurt its business.

The Texas House wants to give the state prison system $160 million more to help care for inmates. The Senate wants to cut funding.

Judge Elsa Alcala ended her tenure critical of the death penalty and often pleading for policy changes from the state Legislature.

Blaine Milam was convicted in the 2008 East Texas death of his girlfriend's 13-month-old baby.

The chamber voted on a resolution that moves misconduct complaints to a committee with subpoena power.

Police use asset forfeiture to seize cash, cars and other property that they suspect is part of criminal activity. As our December story explains, they don't have to get a conviction, but property owners have to prove they're not a criminal.