In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to throw out a ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found it too ...

Kagan added. Now, two years later, Reed continues to pursue DNA testing that could exonerate him, while serving 25 years on Texas’s death row. Robin Bradshaw is a digital reporter. A Texas ...

The U.S. Supreme Court was seemingly divided Monday on a Texas death row inmate’s claim that ... post-conviction DNA testing statute of limitations. But the ruling in that case, Reed v.

Kelly, who took office in January 2021, and McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens, who took office in January 2023, ...

(The Texas Tribune) — Death row inmate Matthew Johnson is scheduled ... whether prosecutors are constitutionally obligated to test DNA evidence he says will exonerate him. Robert Roberson ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Matthew Johnson, who testified he did not intend to kill the elderly ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Areli ... prosecution case against Escobar was evidence from the Austin Police Department's DNA lab.

Before Rogers’ death, the most recent U.S. execution was in Florida and took place May 1, when Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, died by lethal injection for the 1998 shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her ...

Decision season is fully underway for the Supreme Court, kicking off a race against the clock to release this term’s opinions ...

The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where inmates are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs, is shown May 27, 2008. A Texas man sentenced to death row with the help of “hypnotized ...