Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

Ruben Gutierrez's lawyers say new evidence tests would help prove he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year ...

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

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 ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

They’re telling Jim Irsay stories at his funeral Monday, and you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. So at St. Luke’s United Methodist, they do both.

On May 24, Nebraska death-row inmate Michael ­Ryan died of cancer, nearly 30 years after he was sentenced to be executed by the state. State and federal courts are so backlogged with capital ...

There are nearly 180 inmates on Texas Death Row, and of them, only six* are women. *seven, if you count Brittany Marlowe Holberg, but her conviction was recently vacated. A lower court will have to ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied two death row inmates additional relief. Presiding Justice Leslie King issued a dissenting opinion, criticizing the court's history of upholding Batson claims ...

Never in her life would Breonna have been caught in the same outfit two days in a row. Her family knew she wouldn’t want that in death, either. How we memorialized Breonna Taylor: A Q&A with ...