HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas carried out the nation's first execution of 2018 Thursday evening, giving lethal injection to a man who became known as Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" because of his ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Mexican citizen on death row in Texas was executed Wednesday night for the sledgehammer killings of his wife and two children more than 26 years ago. Roberto Moreno Ramos was ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man was executed on Thursday for the murders of a pregnant woman and three other people in Houston more than three decades ago, prison officials said. Arthur Brown Jr., 52, ...

LINDEN — A convicted criminal who was arrested 15 years ago but not indicted in the 1992 slaying of a woman and her two daughters has now been indicted, authorities said. A Cass County grand jury ...

Anthony Allen Shore was put to death for one of those slayings, the 1992 killing of a 21-year-old woman whose body was dumped in the drive-thru of a Houston Dairy Queen. In his final statement, Shore ...