Brittany Holberg, 52, has spent more than a quarter of a century on death row before a federal appeals court tossed out her ...

Jimmie Chris Duncan is on death row in Louisiana for a crime that experts now say may never have happened. His case has ...

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...

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

Aaron Gunches is scheduled to be executed on March 19. He asked for two nonlegal witnesses to be present for his execution.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted an indefinite stay of execution to David Leonard Wood, convicted of six murders ...

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man ...

Wendell Grissom’s execution is set despite claims of brain damage, as Oklahoma’s death penalty law faces scrutiny over its definition of intellectual disability.

Brittany Marlowe Holberg was convicted in 1998 of robbing and murdering an 80-year-old man in his Amarillo home.

David Leonard Wood, who has been on death row for more than 32 years, was scheduled to be executed Thursday in the deaths of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision late last month to overturn Richard Glossip’s death sentence from 2004 has been met with notable public ...