A Houston court has stopped the scheduled February execution of child killer Britt Ripkowski, saying that he suffers from bipolar disorder and is incompetent to be put to death. Ripkowski, 41, was ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review appeals from two Texas death row inmates, including a man who suffocated a 2-year-old Utah girl on Christmas Day 1997 and buried her in a suitcase near ...

Next month's execution of child-killer Britt Ripkowski was halted by a Houston district court Friday, which found the California man suffers from bipolar disorder and is legally incompetent ...