More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

The likes of Ronnie Lee Gardner, Ted Bundy, and Nelson Shelton had some interesting final requests before their deaths.

An attorney for a recently executed Tennessee inmate says an electrocardiogram showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two ...

As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S. Supreme Court's three ...

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

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

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