Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

With the support of Governor Jeff Landry, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill signaled the state is ready to resume ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

For the second week in a row, demonstrators gathered in the area to protest deportation efforts and other legislation they believe targets immigrants.

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. People held in state prison can ...

The stage often brings stars their greatest triumphs, but for some, it tragically becomes the site of their final act, from ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery.

Air ambulance flight crashed near Roosevelt Mall about 30 seconds after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, potentially killing six ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is ...