A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Brad Sigmon made the choice after the state Supreme Court denied a stay request based on questions about the effectiveness of ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

An incarcerated man on death row for more than three decades is now investing his time in the education of others at the ...

He was charged with the 1992 killing of his 6-year-old stepson after the boy came home from school with soiled underwear.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution on Tuesday for a man who was less than two days away from ...

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg’s 1998 murder conviction back down to the trial court to decide how to proceed.

The state now allows death row inmates to choose between lethal injection and firing squad, with the electric chair as the default. Sigmon's execution is scheduled for March 7 at the Broad River ...

She had been seemingly attempt to raise awareness of then Texas death row inmate of the same name ... of using the public photo of another man with the same name to promote Kim's longstanding ...

ANGOLA, La. — A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas.