The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

Moore's attorney describes a formerly addicted man who is now a devout Christian, a good father and a changed man. Only the governor can stop the execution now.

The latest death penalty news from The Texas Tribune. The Texas governor had not publicly shared his thoughts on the actions of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that stopped the scheduled execution of ...

Phil McGraw of TV fame said Roberson’s jury did not get the full picture, that Roberson was wrongfully convicted and that the ...

The decision was the result of a move by five Republican and four Democratic lawmakers on the Texas House Committee on ...

Dearman says his death will bring justice to the families of the five people he killed with an ax and a gun, including a ...

Texas has already executed five individuals this year: Ivan Cantu, Ramiro Gonzales, Arthur Lee Burton, Travis Mullis and Garcia ... life," including people on death row who are made in the image ...

Also on Tuesday, Texas death row inmate Travis Mullis was executed by lethal injection. Mullis, a man with a long history of mental illness who has repeatedly sought to waive his right to appeal ...

Freddie Khalil Owens, Marcellus Williams and Travis James Mullis had all been ... a unanimous jury vote for death. There are currently 160 inmates on death row in Alabama. Inmates are given ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the ...