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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas executed Ivan Cantu by lethal injection Wednesday evening, with Cantu claiming his innocence as the family members of his two victims held on to each other.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas executed Ivan Cantu by lethal injection Wednesday evening, with Cantu claiming his innocence as the family members of his two victims held on to each other.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas executed Ivan Cantu by lethal injection Wednesday evening, with Cantu claiming his innocence as the family members of his two victims held on to each other.

For more than a decade, Michelle Lyons’s job required her to watch condemned criminals be put to death. After 278 executions, she won't ever be the same.

Christopher Duntsch is currently housed at the O. B. Ellis Unit outside Huntsville. He continues to serve his sentence of life imprisonment.

The TDCJ says that over the last five years, they've seen a substantial increase in the volume of illegal narcotics entering Texas prisons.

The TDCJ says that over the last five years, they've seen a substantial increase in the volume of illegal narcotics entering Texas prisons.

The TDCJ says that over the last five years, they've seen a substantial increase in the volume of illegal narcotics entering Texas prisons.

One of Texas’ most famous death row exonerees died before winning compensation under a law inspired by his own story.

(CNS News) -- A new survey shows that 55% of Americans support the death penalty for convicted murderers. Along political lines, 77% of Republicans favor the death penalty and 54% of Independents. Only 35% of Democrats, however, support the death penalty for murderers