A bipartisan group of Texas state lawmakers visited death row inmate Robert Roberson days before his scheduled execution. We ...

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...

Kwame Ajamu spent 28 years in prison – three on death row – for a Cleveland murder he didn't commit. He's now pushing for ...

Ohio's death penalty law is in limbo. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: the status quo isn't working.

Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward will be executed Friday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City after exhausting all legal options to stop his execution. Gov. Mike Braun issued a brief statement ...

Lawyers for Robert Roberson, the condemned man on Texas’ death row who faces execution next week ... In a filing Monday, Roberson’s lawyers wrote that an interview with Nikki’s maternal grandfather ...

A US court has paused the execution of a death-row inmate just days before he was set to die after being convicted for the ...

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

The Indiana Parole Board on Wednesday recommended against granting clemency to death row prisoner Roy Ward, setting up a final decision by Gov. Mike Braun about two weeks before Ward’s scheduled Oct.

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 ...