Black and Hispanic people often get tougher punishments than white people for the same crimes. For example, data from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows that Black individuals are ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice did not respond to our questions ... and counseling worksheets on her blue and white striped comforter and takes pictures of them. One is in faint pencil ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Johnson admitted to setting Harris on fire during his 2013 trial. "I hurt an innocent woman. I took a human being's life. I was the cause of that. It was not ...

Media witnessing Johnson's execution will include the Associated Press, Huntsville Item and The Dallas Morning News, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice told USA TODAY. Elizabeth said that ...