Texas courts declined. Ivan Cantu poses for a photo on Jan. 31, 2024. He is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for two Dallas murders. Credit: Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief ...

A day before death row inmate Ivan Cantu's scheduled execution, Texas' highest criminal court rejected Cantu's last-ditch effort to halt his execution and introduce new evidence in the case.

Ivan Cantu says he has insisted for more than 20 years that he’s innocent of the two murders that landed him on Texas’ death row. But with a week until his execution, he’s running out of ...

As the sun sets on February 28, the State of Texas will end Ivan Cantu’s fifty years of life in a Huntsville death chamber — the ultimate punishment for the two lives he was convicted of ...

The Lone Star State executed a man on Wednesday ... targeted by a rival dealer in the area. Ivan Cantu was pronounced dead at 6.47pm local time in Texas on Wednesday (Texas Department of Criminal ...

Questions are mounting over the execution of a convicted killer on Wednesday night in Texas who maintained his innocence until his dying breath. Ivan Cantu, a 50-year-old Dallas man convicted ...

The developments in Ivan Cantu’s case have urgently called ... a potential alibi and the misgivings of multiple jurors on the case, Texas could execute an innocent man. Cantu’s case must ...

Sister Helen Prejean is trying to keep Texas from killing death row inmate ... All we’re asking is to delay the execution of Ivan Cantu long enough to be able to have a hearing and an inquiry ...