The shooting occurred on Dec. 10, 2003, as the family was returning home from dinner. When they walked through front door, someone inside the house fired shots. The mother, Patricia Whitaker, and the ...

(NEW YORK) — The governor of Texas decided Thursday to spare the life of a convicted killer who carried out a plot to kill his parents and his brother. About 40 minutes before the scheduled execution, ...

RICHMOND — Almost 400 people squeezed into the Fort Bend County jury assembly room where the first day of the capital murder trial of Thomas "Bart" Whitaker got under way. The judge asked if any had ...