Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 for his role in the murder of James Byrd Jr, but it was his last meal request that ...

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

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

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

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

A Texas court has again granted a stay of execution to death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long claimed he is innocent in the murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis, saying his ...

Texas woman convicted of gruesome murder appeals death sentence, claiming prosecutors used humiliating evidence improperly.

As Texas prepares to put Roberson to death on Oct. 16, his lawyers suggest in a filing that an episode of a "Dateline" ...

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

More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...

Anthony Boyd was the 40th person executed in 2025 with another two months left in the year. It is the largest number of ...

“It costs close to a quarter million (dollars) for one dose,” Dr. John Feczko, a pathologist who performed the state’s ...