Irene Banda was sentenced to life in prison and Jorge Castellanos was sentenced to 60 years for the 2020 murder of Banda’s husband, Ramiro Martinez, Fort Bend County District Attorney Brian Middleton announced.

On Tuesday, Galveston County jurors found Jesus Jose Pena Sr. guilty of continuous sex abuse of young children.

The Texas Center for Justice and Equity, a group dedicated to ending “mass incarceration,” has crunched the numbers for dismissals and not guilty verdicts. The results, in many crime categories, show shockingly low conviction rates for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in 2022.

Michelle Hadley was a 29-year-old graduate student living in California when her ex-boyfriend falsely accused her of a lurid crime.

A Houston man who slit his own throat after stabbing a woman to death in front of her children in 2018 was sentenced to 60 years in prison this week, officials said Tuesday.