Texas governor grants woman rare stay
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Two hours before she was to have been executed by lethal injection, convicted killer Frances Elaine Newton on Wednesday received a 120-day reprieve from Texas Gov.
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Hours before an inmate's scheduled execution, Alabama's governor issued a temporary stay on Thursday so the state could review its method of lethal injection.
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Appreciation: The former Texas governor knew how to play politics with the good ole boys, but she opened doors for women and minorities
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Governor M. Jodi Rell underwent surgery yesterday after breast cancer was discovered following a routine mammogram last week, the governor&#39;s office said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Houston woman remained on schedule Tuesday to become the 24th Texas death-row inmate to be executed this year.
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A Texas justice who fended off judicial admonishment over his support for former U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers wants the state to cover his $340,000 legal tab.
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A woman accused of snatching a newborn from a hospital in the middle of the night and hiding her 100 miles away in New Mexico was being taken to Texas on Monday to face a kidnapping charge.
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Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to receive a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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A Chinese woman who miscarried twins after federal authorities hustled her into a van and took her to an airport to deport her will be allowed to stay in the United States, an immigration judge has ruled.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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The season has taken an unexpected turn for Texas' women's basketball team.
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OUSTON - In a highly unusual move and just hours before she was to have been put to death yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton, convicted in 1988 of killing her husband and two children.
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Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday proposed selling the state lottery for at least $14 billion to create an endowment for Texans without health insurance and a trust fund for cancer research.
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The former first lady was laid to rest beside President Johnson at the familyâs ranch in the Texas Hill Country.
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By Jan Jarvis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 21--GRAPEVINE -- Emily Lastinger was running a 103-degree fever and fighting the flu with lots of liquids and bed rest.
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Posted December 1, 2004 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday halted the execution of Frances Newton, who was scheduled to be the first Black woman executed in the state.
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Gov. Olene Walker &#151; Utah's first female governor, and its shortest-serving chief executive &#151; packed up her belongings on her last full day Wednesday.