The likes of Ronnie Lee Gardner, Ted Bundy, and Nelson Shelton had some interesting final requests before their deaths.

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

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

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

A jury found Cedric Ricks guilty of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.

The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct (SCJC) issued a public reprimand for a Harris County Criminal Court judge who ...

A judge has been reprimanded for her handling of death row inmate Ronald Haskell’s post-conviction case that she was removed from following allegations that she acted favorably toward him.

The en banc court in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will rehear Holberg’s appeal in January. In March, a panel of judges in the Fifth Circuit reversed and vacated Brittany Holberg’s ...

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 ...

The machinery of the state killing apparatus in the US continues this week, fueled by the accelerating fascistic agenda of ...

The order was praised by Texas legislators who have questioned the science behind the death row inmate’s 2003 capital murder conviction.