Texas is set to carry out its first execution of the year Wednesday.

On October 1, 1849, an inmate was brought to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. He was the first inmate in the new partially completed Walls Unit, and was serving time as a convicted horse ...

Alexis Woods is facing the same crisis as other prisoners across Texas in this summer’s historic heat. With temperatures soaring to 120 and even 130 degrees in her cell at the Dr. Lane Murray Unit ...

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