A Texas man became the first person executed in the U.S. this year. The man killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.

Fair and Just Prosecution has filed an amicus brief with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stop the execution of Cedric ...

There have been five executions apiece this year in Texas, Alabama and South Carolina. Florida leads the nation with 18. Kristin Houle Cuellar is executive director of the Texas Coalition to Abolish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, Charles Victor Thompson became the first Texas death row inmate to be executed in 2026. Thompson, 55, was ...

Several appeals in some of Texas’ highest-profile capital punishment cases are set for 2026 as the state continues to maintain a historically low number of executions. 2025 marked the second year ...

It’s been 148 days since Texas executed someone—a remarkable lull in the use of the death penalty for a state that has killed far more people than any other. The 2016 hiatus is, in part, a sign of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Victor Thompson was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, the first execution in the United States of 2026.

Charles Thompson was the first Texas execution of the year on Wednesday. Thompson was sentenced to death for the 1998 killings of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Houston. Thompson escaped ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Chaos erupted outside Texas' death chamber when the son of the condemned inmate pounded on the chamber windows, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his ...

Read full article: SAPD: Driver hospitalized after hit-and-run crash involving 3 vehicles on North Side Several appeals in some of Texas’ highest-profile capital punishment cases are set for 2026 as ...

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