An Alabama death row inmate was saved from execution after a federal court ruling banned the means of the scheduled procedure ...

A Florida death row inmate convicted of killing his wife more than three decades ago is making a final effort to stop his ...

Since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment with its 1976 ruling in Gregg v. Georgia, the United States has put more than 1,600 of its citizens to death. The two executions carried out in ...

It is the sixth failed lethal-injection execution in less than 10 years.

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by Justice Sonia ...

This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...