Enacting laws that recognize the reality of permanent incompetency will not fling open the doors of death rows around the ...

Kayle Bates, who's from West Palm Beach, is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 19 for the murder of Janet Renee White.

A Texas man on death row is now scheduled to be put to death in October for his conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has ordered a trial court to review a death row inmate's case after pausing the man's ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has ordered a trial court to review a death row inmate's case after pausing the man's execution earlier this year.

Dissenting judges expressed frustration over a lack of clarity on why the case of David Leonard Wood, whose execution in ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is asking the state's Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his October execution.

An octogenarian death row has died, according to Florida court records, making him at least the seventh death row inmate to die while waiting for their sentence to be carried out.

For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, and—for a select group—a taste of community. After more than 25 years ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded a death penalty inmate’s case to trial court after granting him a stay of execution two days before he was scheduled to be put to death in March.