Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Nathan Gingles, the man accused of killing his wife, her father and an ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

His defense argued the prosecution “shirked its responsibility” to disclose evidence on time and, in turn, violated the court ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the method. Here's a breakdown of his criminal history.

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...