In his appeal, James Broadnax, who also wants a new trial, included a signed confession by his cousin saying he committed the 2008 Garland murders.

Cedric Ricks, 51, was condemned for the May 2013 killings of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her son Anthony Figueroa.

Retired FBI profiler Candice DeLong says Karla Faye Tucker's troubled childhood and drug use doomed her long before the 1983 ...

James Broadnax, sentenced to death for a 2008 double murder in Garland, has long been identified as the gunman. But now ...

March 1836 began with high hopes and idealism for Texas forces trying to free themselves from Mexico, but a string of ...

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The state of Texas carried out the execution of Cedric Allen Ricks on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, putting him to death by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit penitentiary. He was ...

Karla Faye Tucker was everybody’s worst nightmare. She was a hedonist who lived a life of drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll and, above all, violence.

A North Texas man is facing execution for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening at ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s fight for DNA testing nearly three years ...

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Texas death row inmate Cedric Ricks. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP) This undated photo provided by the ...