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 ...

Texas woman convicted of gruesome murder appeals death sentence, claiming prosecutors used humiliating evidence improperly.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

Trump and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

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.

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

Robert Roberson has been on death row since 2003 but has long maintained his innocence in the death of his 2-year-old ...

The order was praised by Texas legislators who have questioned the science behind the death row inmate’s 2003 capital murder conviction.

The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this month ordered a lower court to examine whether its findings in a Dallas ...