The sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

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.

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

Commissioner John Coffee asked Herring and Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas about inmate management and expressed hope for ...

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction ...

“The health and safety of our staff and inmate population is our highest priority,” Haney said.

Officials at an Anderson County prison say water service has been fixed after families of inmates raised concerns.

: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported Tuesday morning that water and water pressure has been restored at the ...

Texas executed Death Row inmate Richard Lee Tabler on Thursday ... He was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m., the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said. “There is not a day that goes by that ...

Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story ... to weigh Ramirez’s religious rights against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s concerns about safety.