Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith shared a harrowing account of how his client, Nicholas Lee Ingram, was initially ...

Thirteen inmates were put to death in an unprecedented run of federal executions in the final six months of Trump's first term.

who was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old daughter in 2002 Texas Department of Criminal Justice A Texas judge denied a motion to vacate the scheduled execution of death row inmate Robert ...

I’m not going to rush justice in a case like this,” U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow said at a hearing Tuesday.

Margie “Velma” Barfield — nicknamed “Death Row Granny” — wore pink pajamas as she was put to death on Nov. 2, 1984. Barfield ...

Robert Roberson was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed on a “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis after getting ...

A Texas appeals court has ordered a new trial for a Jewish man on death row because of antisemitic bias by the judge in his ...

The legal standoff continues over Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson and a subpoena calling for him to testify before the ...

Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson re-introduced a death row appeals bill that would allow death row inmates the opportunity to introduce newly discovered evidence in their appeal. H.R. 9868 ...

now nearing his 22nd year on death row. "That death will follow me for the rest of my life," said Brian Wharton a lead detective who helped convict Roberson. He is a pastor now, a preacher filled ...

Cassandra Stubbs, director of the ACLU’s Capital Punishment Project, speaks with reporters after a hearing on the death penalty in Wyandotte County District Court. The ACLU is challenging the death ...