AUSTIN, Texas, April 15 (UPI) -- The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would give juries the sentencing option of life without parole in capital murder cases.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 4 (UPI) -- Two Texas senators Friday urged swift action on legislation to change the state's sentencing laws in light of the new ban on executing juvenile killers. Sens. Rodney Ellis and Eddie Lucio, both Democrats, asked Republican Gov. Rick Perry to designate eme

DALLAS, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Some legislators want to give juries in Texas capital murder trials a new sentencing option in addition to death or life with eligibility for parole. The bill authored by Sen. Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville, would permit juries to sentence a convicted killer

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A bill was pre-filed in the Texas Legislature Monday that would give the state's juries the option of a life sentence without parole in capital cases.

DALLAS, July 23 (UPI) -- Texas has spent millions to improve life in the makeshift colonias along the Texas-Mexican border, but some still have no running water or sewer services. State Sen. Eddie Lucio, the author of many bills to help the estimated 500,000 residents, says there

AUSTIN, Texas, June 2 (UPI) -- Texas legislators Monday put the final touches on a raucous 140-day session that passed a $117.4 billion budget, home insurance reforms and a new ethics bill that some say is the strongest in a decade.

AUSTIN, Texas, April 4 (UPI) -- A bill may soon come up for debate in the Texas Senate that would give juries the option of a sentence of life without parole in capital cases for the first tim

AUSTIN, Texas, April 4 (UPI) -- A Texas state senator said Friday his state should have the same sentencing options in capital cases that most other death penalty states have. Sen. Eddie Lucio

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Queen Isabella Causeway, the only link between South Padre Island and the Texas mainland, was officially reopened to traffic Wednesday after a Sept. 15 acci