Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

They are some of the country's most notorious killers and their crimes shocked the world. Here are their last meals before ...

The Texas prison system continues to kill off the prisoners who came to death row in the 1990s, at the height of the death ...

A bipartisan group of Texas representatives are supporting the clemency of a Palestine man facing death for the alleged ...

Despicable baby killer Travis Mullis gave his haunting final words following a 16-year spell on death row, before being being ...

Roberson consistently asserted his innocence. For years after he entered death row, he wrote judges handwritten letters ...

There are individual court cases that are perfect symbols of larger injustices, and earlier this month a Black woman named ...

Questions are still swirling around the execution of a Missouri man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 1998.

Kenneth Meers of Oklahoma City "simply did not have a mean bone in his body." The man convicted of killing him is set to be ...

Travis Mullis, 38, was executed Tuesday at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, for the killing of his 3-month-old son more than 16 years ago. Mullis was pronounced dead at 7:01 p.m. with just ...

A man has been convicted for the assault and murder of an Odessa, Texas mall employee 42 years ago, thanks to DNA analysis.