The defense came up big for SOC, which beat Richmond Randle in the Dallas school’s fifth straight trip to state.

On Thursday night, Florida executed its 19th person on death row this year, more than doubling the state's previous annual ...

That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in office he sat on the issue, only turning to it a month after ...

The state should not wield the power to take life. A new report says the state is using that power less frequently. That’s ...

Texas judges scheduled the fewest executions in at least three decades in 2025, but the state continues to spend millions of ...

Roberson, who has faced execution multiple times but maintained his innocence, has been on death row since his 2003 capital ...

Florida accounted for 19 of the executions in 2025. Alabama, Texas and South Carolina each had five. This year, Alabama continued its use of nitrogen executions and another state — Louisiana — ...

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...

But in recent years, Dallas County has moved away from seeking the death penalty in capital cases. Only three new death ...

The "Dateline" anchor returned to his radio reporting roots to examine the case of Robert Roberson, who was convicted of ...

Last year, Robert Roberson came within hours of dying before a legislative subpoena forestalled his execution date. This year ...

Texas' execution numbers remain far lower than recent state highs, even as executions nationally climbed, driven almost ...