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 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 ...

Last month, another Harris County death row prisoner – 70-year-old Joseph Prystash – was found dead in his cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston.

Convicted in 2003 for the tragic death of his daughter, Roberson's case is under intense scrutiny due to new evidence ...

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 tropical system is expected to scrape across the southern Gulf Coast over the next couple of days, bringing with it the ...

Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is asking the state's Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his October execution.

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