Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% ...

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

Five death row inmates in the U.S. are expected to be executed in the coming days, potentially bringing the total for the year to 18. The upcoming executions are scheduled for Friday, Tuesday and ...

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause.

Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who ...

Jurors in the trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichol's fatal beating have seen video showing ...

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Abbott should grant clemency to Robert Roberson, who is scheduled to die ...

She was given Phenergan — a drug that the FDA now warns against prescribing to some children — and sent home, according to ...

A bipartisan coalition of 86 Texas House representatives is asking the state for clemency in the case of Robert Roberson.

State Senator John Whitmire said Brewer was trying to 'make a mockery' of the system with his ridiculous final meal order.

Robert Roberson was convicted in 2002 of shaking his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, to death at his home in Palestine, Texas. Shaken baby syndrome is a controversial child abuse theory that has since ...

A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked ...