Greg Abbott. Her execution is set for April 27. Melissa Lucio was convicted of capital murder in 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Advocates say the case was mismanaged and that ...

Although the Legal Defense Fund first started fighting capital punishment because of the high number of Negroes being sentenced to death, it has, as a matter of policy, broadened its horizons to ...

After the child’s death, Texas Rangers joined the investigation and gathered enough evidence to get Peacock’s charge upgraded to Capital Murder. The child’s mother, Angel Mari Bernal ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that she has directed federal prosecutors to seek a death sentence for the man accused of killing a health-care executive in Manhattan last year — the ...