His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to a fatal stabbing decades ago.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

If you listen closely, you may be able to hear the GOP grumbling over the Senate bill. In today’s issue: Senate referee guts ...

Witness Recantations and Claims of Prosecutorial Misconduct Form Basis of Eleventh-Hour Appeal With just weeks to spare ...

A divided Supreme Court is allowing states to cut off Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood amid a wider Republican-backed ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

A man convicted of raping and killing a woman near a central Florida bar is scheduled to be executed Tuesday. Thomas Lee Gudinas, 51, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection ...

Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.

Attorneys for convicted murderer Brittany Holberg, who has been on death row since 1998, filed an objection Friday to the state’s challenge of an appeals court reversing her conviction in March.

Scott Panetti had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid delusions, depression and insomnia. His case made it to the U.S ...

The two lived in Texas, where she worked as a hairdresser ... She was sentenced to multiple life terms, and he was sentenced ...

A panel of experts is calling for changes to prevent deaths linked to heat and exertion at the nation’s police academies.