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

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

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Jamie was among 203 inmates, including 87 death row prisoners, who fled that day, said a press release signed by Jannatul Farhad, assistant inspector general of Department of Prisons. To address ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an Oklahoma death row inmate who claimed alongside the state itself that his trial was unfair, ordering a new trial and staving off his execution.

HE IS ON DEATH ROW FOR THE ALLEGED 1997 MURDER FOR HIRE KILLING OF HIS FORMER BOSS, BARRY VAN TREESE. ATTORNEY GENERAL GENTNER DRUMMOND, HAS SAID HE BELIEVES GOSSIP DID NOT GET A FAIR TRIAL, NOTING ...

The Supreme Court threw out murder conviction against an Oklahoma death row inmate because a witness in the case lied in court and prosecutors withheld information about him. MSNBC's Lisa Rubin ...

Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the prosecutors withheld evidence and provided the jury with faulty testimony from ...