A new program in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, allows death row prisoners to mingle outside of solitary confinement ...

For the first time in decades, Texas death row inmates are experiencing a change in daily life: no handcuffs, no solitary, ...

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal ...

A relatively new pilot scheme has seen inmates on death row granted more privileges than they’ve had in the past. In America, 27 states have the death penalty, and among them, serving this sentence in ...

A judge has set a new execution date for a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be ...

Robert Roberson is now scheduled to be put to death in October for his conviction in the death of his 2-year-old daughter, ...

Prosecutors alleged that Roberson killed the child by violently shaking her — a diagnosis commonly referred to at the time as ...

A new execution date is being requested for Robert Roberson. He's the Texas man who'd been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a ...

PALESTINE, Tx. - An execution date has been set for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long maintained his ...

Judge Austin Reeve Jackson set Robert Roberson's execution for Oct. 16, almost exactly a year after the Texas Supreme Court granted him a stay.