A new execution date has been requested for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a ...

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

A judge could set a new execution date for no sooner than 90 days from now, though Roberson has a pending appeal.

The Texas Attorney General’s Office has requested a new execution date for Robert Roberson III, the East Texas man who narrowly avoided being put to death last year in a case that upended the state’s ...

The State of Texas wants a new execution date to be set for death row inmate Robert Roberson. Roberson's attorneys argue the ...

A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil ...

The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a condemned Texas prisoner on Thursday, mere minutes before he was scheduled to die ...