A Harris County judge formally resentenced Clarence Jordan to life imprisonment after he spent nearly half a century on death ...
The Justice Department said it likely did not have legal grounds for capital punishment in the case of a man accused of ...
A failed execution in Tennessee left death row inmate Tony Carruthers bleeding and moaning, a witness says. Attorneys for ...
Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...
An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others are defiant. Many seek salvation.
The Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, ...
The episode at the war court alarmed death penalty lawyers, who argued that the judge had a duty to suspend the proceedings ...
The murder trial has not only reignited a racially-charged debate that first erupted after the April 2025 killing of Austin ...
Iran executed more than twice as many people last year as it did in 2024, according to a new report by Amnesty International.