The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to a fatal stabbing decades ago.

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

“In March of 1977 ... Carol Skidmore, her husband James Ronald Skidmore, and her 5-year-old son Lynn Dale Mahaffy left their home in Sealy, Texas, to visit James’ parents in Rossville, Georgia,” the ...

A Texas death row inmate has standing to bring a §1983 due process claim challenging the state’s postconviction DNA testing ...

How college football evolved in the Barry Switzer era following Texas' innovation of the groundbreaking offensive formation ...

Justice Thomas has said the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Due Process clause created a "tool for obstruction." ...

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.

A 68-year-old Waco man linked by DNA evidence to a 33-year-old murder case was found incompetent to stand trial Friday because he suffers from debilitating dementia.

Research my team and I published in the journal Science Advances in March suggests that long-term exposure to extreme heat ...

A medical examiner’s office collaborated with a DNA lab in Texas to identify a missing western Iowa man. Shirlee Henkel, a ...