Texas court delays execution of man on death row for 32 years, days before he was set to die
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...
Killer’s biblical last words before being first to be executed by firing squad in 15 years
A double-murderer quoted the Bible and called on Christians in his last words before becoming the first US death row inmate ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court
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.
Attorneys for death row inmate work to halt gas execution
The State of Louisiana plans to execute the first death row inmate in more than a decade and the first by nitrogen gas, but ...
81-year-old death row inmate dies weeks before his scheduled execution
He died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for his young stepson’s murder in what ...
Louisiana execution recharges debate on death by nitrogen gas
The country’s first execution using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now been used to execute four people in the state. If Hoffman’s execution doesn’t get halted, Louisiana ...