Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 12 other people are scheduled to be executed in six states ...

A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be put to death by lethal ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.

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

Texas executed Death Row inmate Richard Lee Tabler on Thursday, 20 years after he fatally shot four people in what he described as a fit of rage. Texas used a lethal injection of pentobarbital to ...

The justices reversed a lower court’s decision that had upheld Glossip’s conviction despite his allegations that prosecutors wrongly withheld evidence ...

The U.S. Supreme Court was seemingly divided Monday on a Texas death row inmate’s claim that the state is constitutionally obligated to provide DNA testing on evidence he says would prove he ...