Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The exterior of the Huntsville Unit, where Texas executes death row inmates, on Oct. 17, 2024. (Mark Felix for the Texas Tribunne) ...

In his appeal, James Broadnax, who also wants a new trial, included a signed confession by his cousin saying he committed the 2008 Garland murders.

A Texas man, Cedric Ricks, was executed on March 11 after being sentenced to death for the brutal 2013 killings of his girlfriend and her child. Ricks, 51, received a lethal injection at the state ...

A North Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 killings of ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first U.S. execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

Cedric Ricks, who was convicted of capital murder in 2014 for stabbing his common-law wife and her 8-year-old son to death in their North Texas apartment, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A North Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

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Cedric Ricks, who was convicted of capital murder in 2014 for stabbing his common-law wife and her 8-year-old son to death in their North Texas apartment, was executed Wednesday evening. Ricks was ...