Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright's new book, 'Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row,' offers ...

Amid the national debate on capital punishment following Christa Pike’s failed double lethal injection in Tennessee, the attorney for the first Latina who could be executed in Texas is defending her i ...

From 1819 to 1923, death row inmates in Texas were put to death by hanging. The state now uses lethal injection - ...

Tiana Broadnax says her husband James Broadnax sobbed during their final visit on the morning of his Texas execution, telling ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected Melissa Lucio’s latest effort to overturn her 2008 conviction and death sentence for the death of her 2-year-old daughter, ruling that she failed to ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas court on Thursday rejected a ruling that a woman on death row for 18 years is innocent of capital murder in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter in a case that attracted ...

In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second ...

Ker’Sean Ramey, 41, died following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was the sixth person executed this year in Texas.

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The baby-snatching Texas killer at the center of a recently-released Netflix true crime documentary allegedly dismissed murdering her pregnant pal as just “one horrible thing.” Taylor Parker – who is ...

The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution, Parnell said, adding, "Judgment day for Hasan has finally come." ...