Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...

"It is the second time in 37 years," Fulton said. "What's he still doing on death row? You don't hold somebody on death row because they're innocent. I don't know what their game is, but whatever ...

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...

Back when he was put on death row, the assumed execution method was a lethal injection, but those drugs have been hard to come by in recent years --leading to a backlog on death row and now the ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. Jordan, now 78 years old, wants the high court ...

On the other hand, prosecutors have demanded the defense stop referring to the state's intent to seek the death penalty if there is a conviction as "an attempt to kill" the defendant. In what ...

For nearly four decades, David Leonard Wood has languished on Texas Death Row, convicted of the brutal murders of six women and girls in El Paso — despite a glaring absence of DNA evidence ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...