He has claimed his innocence for roughly two decades with his lawyer citing junk science or the Shaken Baby Syndrome as the ...

A new hearing has been scheduled for Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate convicted in 2003 of killing his 2-year-old daughter. The hearing is set for Wednesday, July 16, as the Texas Attorney ...

A Houston-area man convicted of killing his wife died this week after more than three decades on death row, marking the ...

Robert Roberson, convicted of the death of his two-year-old daughter in 2003, faces a new execution date despite new evidence ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

In Texas, from 1819 to 1923, people in Texas were put to death by hanging. Texas now uses lethal injection — pentobarbital — to carry out death sentences.

In July, the high court granted Ruben Gutierrez a stay of execution 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection.

Reforms have been implemented in Texas and other states to avoid mistakes that send innocent people to death row. However, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the constitutionality of state laws governing DNA testing. […] ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district ...

The fate of Gary Lee Graham, executed at 36 after being convicted as a teen, highlights the complexities of juvenile justice ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed William Lewis Reece death penalty conviction for a 1997 murder on.