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

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

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

The federal appeals court said the prosecution failed to disclose that a key trial witness was a paid informant.

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 ...

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

On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.

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 ...

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

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