Former Texas Governor Richards Lies in Repose
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AUSTIN, Sept. 16 -- Former president Bill Clinton on Saturday tearfully escorted the flag-draped casket of former governor Ann Richards into the state Capitol, where she will lie in repose for two days until her funeral and burial.
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UNDATED Governor Rick Perry says giving Frances Newton a 120-day reprieve from her execution was the responsible thing to do. The reprieve Perry granted Wednesday two hours before Newton was to be put to death
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CHICAGO, Sept. 6 -- Former governor George H. Ryan, who won global attention for emptying Illinois's death row, was sentenced to 6 1/2  years in prison Wednesday for a decade of tawdry corruption and official lies that he minimized to the end.
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DALWORTHINGTON GARDENS, Texas Green holiday lights atop a slain rock star&#39;s North Texas home still spells out his motto -- &quot;Getcha a pull.
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Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
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An Air Force officer who was shot down and killed in the Vietnam War has been buried, more than 38 years after his death.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Friends and family buried Ann   Richards in a private ceremony on Monday and then joined in a   memorial service where New York Sen. Hillary Clinton led   mourners praising the life and recalling the humor of the   former Texas governor.
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The estate of the slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. filed a federal court motion on Monday claiming that a prison inmate who implicated a former police officer in the killing was lying when he recanted his testimony.
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In the midst of a key national election on Tuesday, Texas, the leading death penalty state, took time out to execute a man for a 1990 murder.
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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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Nellie Connally, the widow of former Gov. John Connally and the last remaining survivor who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a longtime family friend said Saturday. She was 87.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A man who spent 25 years on Texas death row was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 1980 murder after prison officials had to carry him to the death chamber.
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Looks like time was on Keith Richards' side after all.
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How Gregory Summers, a Texan triple-murder convict, came to rest in Italy
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By Stephen J. Lee, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 22--Destiny Weaver, 2, had been dead perhaps a dozen days when her mother and her boyfriend put her body into a plastic "tote" container Feb.
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There is no resting place for Ted Williams. A legend on America's ballfields, Williams was brought here upon his death nearly five years ago, and while some look to the day he can be brought back to life, there is no headstone, no grieving place, no serene patch of greenery where family, friends, or fans can spend ...
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A federal judge granted a reprieve to a death row inmate Tuesday just hours before his scheduled execution after the man's attorneys claimed the troubled Houston police crime lab mishandled evidence in the murder case.