The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...