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

Moore's death sentence, imposed by an all-white jury more than 20 years ago, raised questions about whether he got a fair ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas did not execute a man convicted ... Lawmakers said issuing a subpoena to a death row inmate hours before their scheduled execution is something no legislature has done.

The Texas attorney general is refuting claims by critics who say a death row inmate was unjustifiably convicted in the death of his toddler child. In the Wednesday night statement posted online ...

With his execution looming last Thursday, the 57-year-old Texas death row inmate watched as his attorneys’ legal arguments were rejected in the courts and his pleas for clemency disregarded ...

A juror who helped convict an autistic death row inmate ... a Travis County judge granted a temporary restraining order stopping the execution. In a dash against the clock, the Texas Attorney ...

Phil McGraw of TV fame and best-selling author John Grisham on Monday testified before Texas lawmakers who brought a death row inmate’s ... Shortly after that, Travis County Judge Jessica ...

Several Texas legislators and the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty assert that Roberson has spent more than 20 years on death row for a "crime that never occurred." The Innocence ...

A first-of-its-kind Hail Mary legal maneuver to delay the impending execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson succeeded — at least temporarily — after a Travis County state district ...

Anti-death penalty advocates held a rally over the weekend in Texas calling for capital punishment to be abolished, as several high-profile death row cases in Texas and other states have sparked ...