Cedric Ricks is set to be executed March 11. Family and advocates are asking Gov. Greg Abbott to commute his sentence.

The man responsible for the 1998 double murder of a Houston mother and her boyfriend is scheduled for execution in Huntsville on Wednesday. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was convicted of murdering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Huntsville Unit in Huntsville. Prisoners on death row are transported there for execution. Several appeals in some of Texas’ ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday, Texas’ first execution of 2026. Thompson was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend, Dennise ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who once escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was ...

The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849 and houses Texas' execution chamber. HUNTSVILLE — A Houston-area man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to ...