The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn't kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by a Texas man who faces the death penalty for his role in the 1998 murder of an elderly mobile home park owner and is seeking DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene.

Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 Brownsville murder of an elderly woman. His execution was stayed in July.

The US Supreme Court will consider reviving a plan to store as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste at a temporary west Texas site, accepting

Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, and Rep. Susan Pulsipher, R-South Jordan, sponsored Utah’s age verification bill in 2023. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle unanimously voted in favor of the measure.

As millions prepare to go to the polls, a law that few are aware of could mean inmates across Texas, including those on death row may be eligible to vote and help decide the next election

A man in Texas is scheduled to be put to death later this month, in what would be the country's first execution for "shaken baby syndrome". The controversial diagnosis has been successfully challenged in some previous criminal cases.