Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.

More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

Three teenagers are facing charges after a U.S. Marine Corps veteran was found dead on the side of the road last month in ...

James Paul Grigson, Jr., nicknamed 'Dr. Death', was a controversial psychiatric expert who testified in 167 capital trials, ...

Robert Roberson has been on death row since 2003 but has long maintained his innocence in the death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis.

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

Trump and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.