Houston serial killer Anthony Shore faces another death date, this one Jan. 18. Shore was originally set for execution in October, but that got halted by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office ...

The man convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman in the Sam Houston National Forest more than 20 years ago has been executed. Larry Swearingen died by lethal injection Wednesday night. Swearingen is ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of a Texas inmate convicted in the 1998 killing of a suburban Houston community college student (all times local): 6:55 p.m. Texas has ...

Swearingen has faced execution four times for a crime scientists say he could not have committed. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

The parents of Melissa Trotter were looking forward to Wednesday — the day they would finally see the man convicted of killing their 19-year-old daughter put to death. After six years of legal delays, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row ...

Texas executed Larry Swearingen for a 1998 Texas slaying. His lawyer says bad science got him on death row. Jolie McCullough Aug 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019Updated Oct 17, 2019 0 ...

Death row inmate Larry Swearingen cannot prove that biological materials exist on evidence connected to the 1998 murder of Melissa Trotter – including on the alleged murder weapon – and therefore is ...

CONROE — A state district judge has withdrawn next month's execution date for a 41-year-old convicted killer who now has avoided the death chamber four times. Judge Kelly Case last week ordered Larry ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will not allow additional DNA testing of evidence a death row inmate in Texas says could show he didn't kill a suburban Houston college student. The justices on ...

Death row inmate Larry Swearingen has dodged an execution date for a third time in the 1998 slaying of a Montgomery County college student. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Thursday that new ...