The Tarrant County DA's office DA recently waived the death penalty for the men indicted in the killings of G$ Lil Ronnie and ...

After avoiding another execution last month, Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson faces yet another roadblock in his ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-four people on death row have been executed so far this year, and ...

Oklahoma governor grants clemency to death row inmate just hours before scheduled execution, commuting sentence to life ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence for a woman who committed a brutal murder and fetal abduction in Bowie County.

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Lawyers for Robert Roberson, the condemned man on Texas’ death row who faces execution next week, say the first episode of a “Dateline” podcast about his case contains “highly relevant” evidence that ...

A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 ...

Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 for his role in the murder of James Byrd Jr, but it was his last meal request that ...

New Jersey’s public defender’s office hailed it a “landmark” moment, stating it reflected the importance of relying on ...