Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

Between Austin and Waco in Texas is a historic motor hotel that once served stagecoach travelers in the 19th century and ...

Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services are working together to find ...