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

Cedric Ricks spoke in his own defense at his 2013 murder trial, something most defendants accused of a terrible crime do not do. Ricks confessed that he had killed his girlfriend, Roxann Sanchez, and ...

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 ...

Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, and her new boyfriend, Darren Cain, in 1998.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who at one time 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 nearly 27 ...

Texas' execution numbers remain far lower than recent state highs, even as executions nationally climbed, driven almost entirely by a surge in Florida, according to a new year-end report. Why it ...