The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is offering few details about the deaths, which coincided with a respiratory illness ...

A federal appeals court has reversed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...

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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case. Myers was facing execution this spring. Ivey ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.

Sneed took the stand against him to avoid the death penalty, Glossip's WilmerHale Supreme Court lawyers argued. After years of appeals and litigation, including a 2015 trip to the U.S. Supreme ...