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

James Grigson, nicknamed "Dr. Death", testified in over 100 death penalty cases, resulting in almost all death sentences, but ...

Convicted of capital murder for killing his neighbor, Trevor McEuen was sentenced to automatic life in prison by a Kaufman ...

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

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

The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson’s execution to consider the use of “junk science” in his ...

Melissa Lucio in 2022. She was blamed for her daughter's accidental death after she confessed during a verbally abusive and coercive interrogation. Her stay of execution came from the Texas Court of ...

Former FBI Top 10 fugitive Jose Rodolfo "El Gato" Villareal-Hernandez faces new federal charges tied to a 2013 Southlake ...

Texas executed Blaine Milam for killing 13-month-old Amora Carson in what prosecutors called an exorcism despite his claims ...

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is ...