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Investigative reviews by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and independent consultants found the severely short-staffed prison routinely bypassed crucial security checks, leading to a convicted murderer’s escape.

Texas officials claimed that no prisoners have been killed by heat. A new report shows they're wrong

During the hottest part of the year, up to 13 percent of deaths at Texas prisons without air conditioning were due to extreme temperatures.

Beatty’s lawyers argued unsuccessfully that the 2003 Smith County murder didn’t qualify for the death penalty. Neither the Supreme Court nor Texas Gov. Greg Abbott intervened on Wednesday.

HOUSTON — The pay is rising — but so are average temperatures, and because many of the workplaces are not air-conditioned, toiling for this employer often means broiling in the Texas heat. The job is stable and recession-proof but also potentially dangerous, with an ever-present threat of violence.

Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is scheduled to be executed on 13 July

Washington (AFP) - An escaped murderer suspected of killing five people while on the run was gunned down by Texas police, bringing an end to a three-week-long manhunt after the fugitive's dramatic escape from a prison bus. 

Convicted murderer Gonzalo Lopez has been shot dead police believe he may be linked to the deaths of four children and an adult at a home near to where he escaped

FORT WORTH, Texas — The man who authorities said escaped law enforcement custody May 12 by stabbing a bus driver after getting out of his shackles is now suspected of murdering five people, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced.

State prison officials say a convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver on May 12 may be driving the truck linked to the deaths of five people

Authorities say a Texas inmate who was serving a life sentence for murder when he escaped from a transport bus last week got out of his restraints and a caged area before stabbing the driver