Wade Wilson, 30, has officially started the appeal process after being sentenced to death for murdering two women in October ...

If it moves forward, it will be the state's first execution in 13 years and the 14th execution in the nation this year. It's ...

The bar is usually high to grant new trials after death row inmates use up all their appeals. Owens’ lawyers said past ...

Williams' case demonstrates how the death penalty in America is meted out in the most arbitrary manner—to those denied ...

Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate with autism, gains support to halt his execution scheduled for October 17 amid new ...

Robert Roberson, on Texas death row for his daughter's murder, faces execution next month despite new evidence supporting his ...

An Oklahoma city has agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after nearly 50 ... after a judge vacated his conviction and sentence and ordered a new trial.

Robert Roberson was convicted in 2002 of shaking his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, to death at his home in Palestine, Texas. Shaken baby syndrome is a controversial child abuse theory that has since ...

In a new court filing, lawyers for death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies are asking a judge to disqualify the Utah Attorney ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- An Indiana death row inmate is scheduled to be executed in December in what will be the state's ...

(CNN) — A Missouri judge on Thursday rejected an effort by the St. Louis prosecutor to vacate the conviction of Marcellus ...

Lawmakers in Texas, medical experts and the best-selling novelist John Grisham are pushing to save an autistic death row inmate whose daughter died in 2002 in a tragedy blamed on shaken baby syndrome.