“The Death Star now operational,” Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock), wrote in a statement posted to X back in July, shortly after a judge upheld The Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, ...

Robert Roberson, an East Texas man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, poses for a photo at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Juan Figueroa / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several appeals in some of Texas’ highest-profile capital punishment cases are set for 2026 as the state continues to maintain a ...