Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Two Texas death row inmates in the last year were given court rulings of "actual innocence". Melissa Lucio, 56, convicted of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2008, is still waiting for a judge ...

A teen menace with 8 previous arrests was busted Thursday for allegedly taking an empty train on a joyride through Brooklyn ...

Nelson was accused of killing 28-year-old pastor Clinton "Clint" Dobson in 2011. Nelson entered NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington and allegedly attacked Dobson and 69-year-old secretary Judy ...

An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery, clearing the way for him to become the first person ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm ...

Medical experts and death row inmates file legal briefs challenging legality of Arizona's execution drugs ahead of March ...

Nearly four decades ago, public outrage over the execution of Jerome Bowden, a man with an IQ of 65, spurred Georgia ...

Steven Nelson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, more than a decade after he was convicted of smothering a 28-year-old ...

Nelson, 37, was convicted of the 2011 murder of the Rev. Clint Dobson in a robbery that turned fatal inside Dobson's own ...

Idaho House Republicans on Monday advanced a bill that would make death by firing squad the main death penalty method in Idaho. Presenting House Bill 37 to the Idaho House ...