1 day ago · Texas is scheduled to execute another man on Feb. 13, the same day as another execution in Florida. Texas executed Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved ...

Jan 29, 2025 · COLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing a gun in his yard late at night pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder charges and will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole, a prosecutor said.. Francisco Oropeza, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty to capital murder of multiple ...

(a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the death of an individual. (b) Criminal homicide is murder, capital murder, manslaughter, or criminally negligent homicide. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. …

Jan 30, 2025 · A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing a gun in his yard late at night pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder ...

Nov 17, 2024 · Three days after 24-year-old Alyssa Burkett was shot and then stabbed to death outside her office in Carrollton, Texas, Andrew Beard – with whom Burkett shared a 1-year-old daughter – was charged...

Murder in Texas law constitutes the intentional killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S. state of Texas. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in the year 2020, the state had a murder rate slightly above the median for the entire country.

May 1, 2023 · Five people, including an 8-year old, were killed and three were injured in a Saturday night shooting in Cleveland, Texas. The alleged gunman, who is not yet in custody, used an AR-15-style rifle...

Apr 29, 2023 · Five people are dead, including an 8-year-old boy, after being shot in a Texas home by a suspect armed with AR-15 style rifle, police say.

May 3, 2023 · Texas massacre suspect Francisco Oropesa was formally charged with five counts of murder during his first court appearance Wednesday, Judge Randy Ellisor said. He’s accused of fatally shooting...

May 4, 2023 · Authorities say a man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas hid out in a house just 20 miles away from the slayings while he and his domestic partner plotted his escape to Mexico.