The families of Jon Southards, Elizabeth Hagerty and John Skinner are suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in ...

A woman who watched nearly 300 death row executions take place over 12 years opened up about how her macabre career impacted ...

A new execution date is being requested for Robert Roberson. He's the Texas man who'd been set last year to become the first ...

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

“Peace to everyone,” Hanson said while strapped to a gurney inside the prison’s death chamber. The execution began at 10:01 a.m. After the lethal drugs began to flow, a doctor entered the death ...

Three death row inmates were executed this week, bringing to 19 the number of people put to death so far in 2025, including 3 in South Carolina, 4 in Texas, 2 in Alabama, 5 in Florida, and 1 each ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

A juror at his 1994 trial is among those urging Gov. Kay Ivey to consider clemency and leave Myers in prison for the rest of his life, instead of sending him to the death chamber. “I know he is ...

In 2008, he prompted a massive lockdown throughout the state’s 150,000-inmate prison system when he smuggled a cellphone into the state penitentiary in Huntsville and began making death-threat ...

In 2008, he prompted a massive lockdown throughout the state's 150,000-inmate prison system when he smuggled a cellphone into the state penitentiary in Huntsville and began making death-threat ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, and later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death ...