A Texas man was executed on Tuesday evening 13 years after brutally killing a beloved grandma when he set her on fire at a gas station. Matthew Johnson, 49, was convicted of the heinous murder of ...

An undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Matthew Lee Johnson. AP Johnson, 49, was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m., about 26 minutes after the cocktail of drugs was ...

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Matthew Lee Johnson, who was sentenced to death for a convenience store robbery in which he set an elderly clerk on ...

Notably absent on the list are Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and other state agencies. By contrast, Democratic-led Arizona Department of Corrections and ...

"I'm well and at peace. You know that I'm well and everything is love," he said, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Mendoza's case gained a sort of notoriety in the years ...

Matthew Lee Johnson was killed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice In Huntsville, located about 70 miles north of Houston. He was pronounced dead at 6: ...

Johnson, 49, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m., according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his final statement, Johnson apologized to the family of ...

Powledge Unit prison in Palestine, Texas, Texas Department of Criminal Justice records show. Palestine is south of Dallas and about a two-hour and 25-minute drive from the gunman's hometown of ...

Texas Department of Criminal Justice/Aaron M. Sprecher/AP Asked if he had a final statement, Johnson said: "First and foremost, I would like to give all praises to God. If it wasn't for him ...

No other executions were scheduled this year as of Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s website. Chase Rogers is a breaking news reporter at The Dallas Morning News.

The program, operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, allows inmates to shorten the time served before being eligible for parole by behaving well and taking part in rehabilitative ...

The bill would have mandated that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice purchase and install climate control systems to ensure temperatures are maintained between 65 and 85 degrees in certain ...