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 Nevada Attorney General’s Office has charged 20 people in connection with the murder of three inmates in a state prison last year.

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

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was sentenced to death.

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

Brittany Marlowe Holberg was convicted in 1998 of robbing and murdering an 80-year-old man in his Amarillo home. The appeals ...

A judge followed a jury’s recommendation that Eriese Tisdale be put to death for gunning down Sgt. Gary Morales, 35, on Feb.

An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South ...

How Friday's execution will unfold Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber ...

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid ...