Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death row inmate Charles Victor Thompson provides details on Dec. 15, 2005, of his short-lived escape from a Harris County jail.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend received a ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first US execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849 and houses Texas' execution chamber. Texas is set to carry out its first execution of the year Wednesday. Charles Victor ...