capital murder

Francisco Torres Oropeza pleaded not guilty in an East Texas court on Capital Murder charges related to the alleged murder of five Honduran migrants. The Hondurans, including a young child, lived next door to Oropeza at the time of the reported shooting deaths.

Alabama forward Darius Miles was charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend allegedly because she stopped talking to him.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas district court judge reduced the bond for a man charged with Capital Murder to $9,000. The suspect is out of jail after paying a $900 fee to the bondsman, according to Houston Crime Stoppers.

Alabama Corrections Official Vicky White stayed at a hotel the night before authorities say she helped inmate Casey White escape from prison.

Authorities have issued a warrant for missing Alabama Corrections Official Vicki White for allegedly helping a capital murder suspect escape.

A corrections director with an Alabama sheriff’s office and an inmate – charged with capital murder – went missing Friday morning. 

A Texas judge has found Darriynn Brown, accused of kidnapping and murdering four-year-old Cash Gernon, incompetent to stand trial.

Two Texas brothers and their friend are facing charges linked to the death of their stepfather, who allegedly sexually abused their nine-year-old sister.

A report by Houston’s FOX26 claims over 150 people have been killed by suspects whom Democrat judges have released on bond in Harris County, Texas.

A jury found a Texas nurse guilty of capital murder of four patients after prosecutors asserted the nurse injected the patients with air while recovering from heart surgeries.

A Houston man severely injured during a carjacking gone array in May witnessed a similar incident on September 29, where a woman was dragged to death by a carjacker after her seatbelt had trapped her in the Uvalde area of

Otis McKane physically assaulted a bailiff inside a courtroom moments after a jury found him guilty of capital murder.

A Texas woman who called from the lobby of a suburban Dallas police station admitted to killing her two daughters, ages 1 and 6, police said Tuesday.

Maurice ‘Isaiah’ Torres died of septic shock after his father allegedly violated him with a stick for eating a piece of cake.

An aspiring rapper has been charged in the shooting death of a little girl in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday after he targeted the wrong apartment.  

Newly released body cam video shows home invasion suspect Jonathan Perales begging police to keep him alive after a homeowner shot him in the chest.

Police arrested an elderly Arkansas woman on Saturday and charged her with killing her husband after an argument over his pornography purchases, a report says.

A Texas couple blamed “demons” and “not worldly” forces for the recent death of their two-year-old son and for injuries authorities found on their eight-month-old daughter. However, the evidence told a different story and local law enforcement charged these young parents with capital murder.

Authorities arrested Rev. Al Sharpton’s half-brother and charged him with capital murder in Alabama for shooting and killing a 23-year-old woman over a car dispute, police said.

A teenage mother is in a Texas jail after she allegedly killed her newborn infant daughter. The mother allegedly stabbed her daughter in the neck and body before leaving her in the garage to die.

A Texas grand jury previously indicted a Mexican national for the double capital murder of a couple found in shallow graves last year. The man is now charged in the death of a third person found buried beneath a Fort Worth home.

A Texas jury wasted no time in sentencing a man that police called a sexual predator to a life sentence following his conviction for murdering a teenage girl. Dallas County prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty because of the killer’s “intellectual disability.”

An Arkansas man has been arrested on suspicion of capital murder after he told police he stabbed his wife to death for changing the television channel.

HOUSTON, Texas — The Harris County District Attorney’s Office filed capital murder charges against a woman after she allegedly stabbed her own daughter to death. The killing of the four-year-old came after the woman reportedly fought with a yet unnamed boyfriend.

Three Mississippi teenagers were arrested after a 6-year-old boy was killed in the back seat of a stolen car, police said.

Two teenagers were arrested Thursday and charged with murder after they allegedly lured a man with a sexting app, then beat him to death and set him on fire.

A Texas teenager, charged with capital murder after allegedly stabbing his friend’s mother to death, is being held without bail at the Harris County Jail.

The State of Texas has filed a brief to reply to the claims on appeal made by the convicted murderer of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield. Eddie Ray Routh is asking an intermediate appellate court in Texas to set aside the jury’s guilty verdict.

A Texas border teen is facing capital murder charges in connection with the death of his own 6-month-old baby boy.

A 2011 San Antonio killing left a mother, a daughter and her roommate dead, and neither of the men involved facing murder charges or the death penalty. One of the alleged killers will only be serving only 10 years for possession of child pornography.

A man Dallas police called a sexual predator has been arrested and charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a young Texas woman. The woman was abducted while on her way to church earlier this month.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused earlier this week to hear an appeal filed by a Brownsville, Texas, man accused of stabbing an 85-year-old woman to death. Ruben Gutierrez, 38, was 21 at the time of the capital murder.

HOUSTON, Texas – Defense lawyers for a man charged with executing a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy in Houston, Texas, attempt to avoid lethal injection by engaging in a smear campaign against the murdered victim. A defense lawyer for the man charged denies that he tries to smear the deputy.

An illegal alien from Nicaragua, scheduled for execution in Huntsville, Texas, on Wednesday evening, received a stay of execution from the state’s highest criminal court.

Glenn Ford was released after serving 30 years on death row when the Caddo District Attorney asked that the man’s conviction and sentence be set-aside. The District Attorney found new evidence about the actual gunman after an investigation into another homicide. The attorney who prosecuted apologized for his part in not looking under every rock for the evidence. The man’s release was extensively covered by the media but the murder victim’s family want people to know “Glenn Ford is not an innocent victim.”

A Kansas judge ruled that a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan will stand trial for capital murder in the alleged killings of three people. The victims were shot in the parking lot of a Jewish community center and assisted-living facility nearly one-year ago. The former KKK grand dragon was convinced he was dying at the time and wanted “to make damned sure I killed some Jews or attacked the Jews before I died,” according to a statement he made to the Kansas City Star.