The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court ...

Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 living in Brownsville, Texas, was arrested and charged in 2007 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez who had turned purple and unresponsive at ...

There are 40 federal inmates on death row whose executions were put off under the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium on ...

South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

Huntsville, Texas — The Texas Supreme ... The parole board has recommended clemency in a death row case only six times since the state resumed executions in 1982. The one time Abbott halted ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty and undo the Biden-Harris administration's moratorium ...

Attorneys for the inmates are reportedly to ask the state Supreme Court to halt executions and issue any more death warrants ...

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would resume federal executions if he won and make more ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP ... The parole board has recommended clemency in a death row case only six times since the state resumed executions in 1982. The one time Abbott halted an imminent ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...