Texas Inmate Kills Clerk, Commits Suicide
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An inmate serving a life sentence for sexual assault killed a prison clerk and then committed suicide, authorities said Friday.
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A disgruntled employee shot and seriously wounded three co-workers at a menu printing plant Monday before killing himself as a SWAT team entered the building
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One of four men convicted in a botched bank robbery in which four employees and a customer were killed was sentenced to death Wednesday.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday by lethal injection, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court said it will decide whether that method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas Time may be running out for a woman on death row in Texas. Frances Newton is scheduled to get a lethal injection tomorrow evening for the 1987 shooting deaths of her husband and two small children.
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A prison inmate getting medical treatment at the University of Utah stole a gun from a corrections officer Monday and fatally shot him, authorities said.
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Apparent suicide of Saudi man at US jail in Cuba follows triple hanging last June.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a mechanic on Wednesday who was convicted of murdering a taxi driver, marking the second of three planned executions this week.
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A former high school honors student was executed late Tuesday evening for the death of a woman who was one of four people gunned down in a holdup at an East Texas bar.
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A fired employee shot and critically wounded three people at a menu printing plant Monday before killing himself as a SWAT team entered the building, authorities said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas put an Illinois man to  death by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a  Houston-area man and robbing his apartment in 1986.
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Authorities on Thursday charged a Utah inmate with murder in the shooting death of a prison guard who tried to stop him from escaping during a medical appointment.
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A gunman fatally shot three men at a business meeting before committing suicide Monday night in an office building at the old Philadelphia Navy Yard, police said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a former drug   dealer on Thursday for the 1997 murders of a 41-year-old woman   and her 15-year-old son at their home near the south Texas town   of Refugio.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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Two prison guards were fatally shot while on duty in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide that might have stemmed from a domestic dispute.
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Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Tuesday for strangling his wife and her mother.