The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...

Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was ...

NEW CUMBERLAND - As he rolls up in his patrol car on 4th Street, there’s Will pinning a man down, nodding for him to move on ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

If it seems like death penalty cases drag out in the courts already, new legislation introduced on Thursday would ensure that ...