As a legal chess match continues over a death row inmate’s life, the Texas Supreme Court has weighed in, saying a legislative committee that delayed Robert Roberson’s execution date did not have the power to stop a scheduled sentence.

Julian Requena was sentenced by Judge Surendran Pattel for the crash which seriously hurt Officer Ruben Munoz, who was 25-years-old at the time.

A Katy man has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting and killing his wife and wounding two of his stepchildren in 2021.

Luis Luna has been in jail since August 2020 after prosecutors said he brutally raped and murdered his 8-month-old daughter, Savayah Mason, inside his west Harris County apartment.

A judge in Fort Bend County has sentenced a 46-year-old man to life in prison without parole for sexually abusing a child over a 14-year period.

A Houston man convicted of sex trafficking four women by means of force and of taking three women across state lines to engage in prostitution has learned his sentence.

A man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for the murder of a friend of his estranged wife back in 2018.

A Harris County man has been sentenced for his role in causing the injuries which led to the death of a 2-year-old boy.

A 49-year-old Rosenberg man will spend the next 35 years behind bars for the sexual abuse of a young girl.

A visiting judge in Galveston has sentenced a man to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a homeless woman in 2019.

Frank DeLeon, 19, was formally sentenced to prison Thursday morning after accepting a plea deal with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office for the death of 16-year-old Diamond Alvarez.

A Katy man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 2021 murder at a motel in west Houston.

A former state trooper has been ordered to serve 516 months in federal prison after he was convicted of coercing two women into providing him oral sex while on-duty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

A man accused of injuring his girlfriend’s child, which authorities said led to the child’s death three years ago, was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Wednesday.

Abbas Abdal Abed, 47, was convicted by a jury earlier in May in the stabbing death of 29-year-old Abdulrahman Haris on Dec. 15, 2019.

A narcotics dealer was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison, according to the Galveston County Attorney’s Office.

A 27-year-old man who killed another man he owed money to in 2016 has been sentenced to 45 years in prison, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Saturday.

A Houston man who fled to Honduras after shooting and killing his friend in 2018 has been sentenced to 50 years in prison, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

The sentencing trial has begun for a former Houston-area high school football coach convicted twice of fatally shooting his pregnant wife during what authorities say was a staged burglary more than 24 years ago.

A man who beat an Army veteran to death in 2015 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said Friday.