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

The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this month ordered a lower court to examine whether its findings in a Dallas ...

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

On Thursday, Alabama is set to execute Geoffrey West by nitrogen gas. At the same time, Texas is scheduled to execute Blaine ...

Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) announced the execution of a Mississippi death row inmate will proceed this month. Officials said the lawyers for Charles Ray Crawford ...

The United States executed two death row inmates on Thursday evening -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a year that has seen an uptick in inmates being put to death.

A death row inmate who killed three people 21 years ago as he taunted police with a message in blood, then beat up an officer ...

Death row inmates Derrick Dearman and Jamie Mills were executed last year with traces of meth in their bodies, while Carey ...

Charles Ray Crawford, 59, has been on death row for over 30 years. He is set to be executed Oct. 15 in Mississippi. Here's ...

A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, "I didn't kill anybody. I didn't participate in any killing." Boyd ...

A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital. Fred Singleton was ...