Huntsville

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Prison officials were moving forward with plans to execute a 44-year-old man Thursday evening for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he is too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - The fate of a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery was in the hands of Gov.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A man convicted of fatally beating and shooting an East Texas man during a burglary almost 12 years ago was executed Thursday, in a case that gained notoriety because jurors may have consulted a Bible to justify his death sentence.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A Texas man convicted in the shooting death of a suspected drug dealer during a robbery 18 years ago was executed Wednesday, the 17th this year in the nation's busiest death penalty state.