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

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution on Tuesday for a man who was less than two days away from ...

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

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he ...

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

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...