Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal injection in the southern US states of Florida and Texas on Thursday. There have ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's written two books about his life.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, died by lethal injection yesterday (February 5) at the state penitentiary in Huntsville ...

This fall, Texas looked like a commercial created by the Florida Chamber of Commerce. As I sat in what I call my ‘Break Room’—one of the lawn chairs in our front yard that catches any sun ...

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. There, in June 1979, John Paul II asked God for peace during ...

it has never been easy for inmates on death row to get clemency. For example, in 2023, only one of them succeeded when Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) pardoned John Huffington on the grounds that ...

Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex-shamed" during her husband's murder trial, may have another day in court after a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling. Brenda Andrew ...

In 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons denied the state’s request to transfer federal inmate George John Hanson, known as John Fitzgerald Hanson, in his Oklahoma death-sentence case. That decision ...

Ecclesiastical lines have been drawn over the fate of Texas death row inmate Steven Nelson, with one church saying his sentence for killing its pastor is justified and another clergyman saying the ...