A Texas law that criminalizes abortion went into effect in August 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Under the law, physicians who provide abortions can be charged with a first ...

A Texas appeals court upheld an injunction stopping Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing new reporting rules on ...

The law would expand the legal definition in the Texas criminal code of what is considered to be an illegal public performance of sexual conduct in front of children. HOUSTON — A federal judge on ...

Texas’ 2013 law that allows for new trials in cases with flawed scientific evidence was pioneering. But the state’s highest criminal court has rejected most of those challenges. Robert Roberson seeks ...

The Texas Civil Rights Project alleges the Texas Department of Criminal Justice keeps inmates in higher-security housing units for much longer than the expected 10 years while some inmates live in ...

House Bill 1551 would require schools to notify parents within two days if a school or district employee is charged with ...

In 2003, the Supreme Court passed Lawrence v. Texas, which banned the prosecution of sodomy—any sexual act that could not ...

When Texas’ highest criminal court stopped Robert Roberson’s execution in 2016, it agreed with his lawyers that there was enough doubt over the cause of his daughter’s death to warrant a second look.

Robert Roberson seeks a new trial for his 2003 murder conviction in the death of his two-year-old daughter. His attorneys are asking for a new trial based on new findings they say debunk the flawed ...