All male death row inmates in Texas are housed at the Polunsky Unit, located outside Livingston, which is about 75 miles (120 kilometers) northeast of Houston. The state's seven female death row inmates, who are not part of the lawsuit, are housed at a separate prison. The lawsuit com...
Known as being one of the most violent prisons in the country. Inmates here are on death row and spend 22 hours of their day in solitary confinement. This is a "supermax" prison where the highest level of security is used at all times. 6200 Knauth Rd, Beaumont, TX 77705 Google Maps U...
Jurors had the option of sentencing Nelson to life in prison without parole, but ultimately gave him the death sentence. It will be the first execution in Texas in 2025. There are three other executions scheduled for this year in Texas. In: Murder Death Row Crime Julia Falcon Julia ...
Lucus had claimed his first murder happened when he was 14 and a 17-year-old woman rejected his advances; however, he would later recount this confession and her body was never found. Lucus did kill his elderly mother after she began to beat him, for which he served 10 years in prison....
Right now, sitting in a Texas prison cell, is a man named Raymond Riles, and his story is anything but ordinary. Riles has been on death row longer than anyone else in the entire United States. His stay hasn't been quiet either—back in 1985, Riles set himself on fire, and over the...
a bipartisan group of texas lawmakers announced tuesday they had issued a new subpoena that would require the state’s prison system to allow death row inmate robert roberson to testify in person this week about the state’s junk science law. an earlier subpoena ...
The information came to light after Texas prison officials refused to explain how they procured more of the death row drug amid a national shortage. States that carry out the death penalty began experiencing a shortage of lethal drugs after some overseas companies refused to sell the drugs for ...
Mack Arthur Kizzee III is affiliated with the Bloods gang and has ties to Houston, Texas. In 2015, Kizzee was convicted of Aggravated Robbery with a Deadly Weapon and subsequently sentenced to ten years’ confinement in TDCJ prison. He was released on parole from TDCJ in January 2022. In Ja...
Charles Brooks Jr.wanted fried shrimp and oysters but was told "no seafood" by the prison chef. Instead, he had, a T-bone steak, french fries, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, biscuits, peach cobbler, and iced tea." Brooks was convicted of the murder of a car salesman during a test drive...
Charles Brooks Jr.wanted fried shrimp and oysters but was told "no seafood" by the prison chef. Instead, he had, a T-bone steak, french fries, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, biscuits, peach cobbler, and iced tea." Brooks was convicted of the murder of a car salesman during a test drive...