More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...
For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 in a small, isolated prison After 27 years on Texas Death Row, Charles ...
More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...
Texas woman convicted of gruesome murder appeals death sentence, claiming prosecutors used humiliating evidence improperly.
Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.
If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...
The first half was come-and-go for No. 3 Texas A&M in Baton Rouge, but second half was a solid coat of Maroon and White.
Trump and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.
Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.
A state panel says Harris County Judge Natalia Cornelio showed bias in a high-profile death row case. She disputes the ...
As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S. Supreme Court's three ...
Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a drug debt. Anthony Boyd was ...