A final meal represents the last bit of power the world's worst killers will ever wield - and invites wild combinations, ...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested and charged with capital murder of another teen in a December shooting in northwest Harris County. This was the first death penalty in Harris County since 2022. Alexus ...

Here’s what to know about the Texas Seven, including their escape from a South Texas prison, subsequent crime spree and ...

Lawyers for Xavier Davis and prosecutors will address jurors one final time Thursday to glean his punishment in the death of ...

The men had their death sentences commuted under the Biden administration, but say they are being punished by being ...

COMMENTARY: The fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.

The alleged false testimony came from corrections officer Robert Hinton, who claimed that Mendoza attacked another inmate, Melvin Johnson, while in jail awaiting trial. Mendoza’s current attorneys ...

Lamont Cousins’ capital murder trial is underway in a triple homicide. The victims worked at a used car dealership.

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

It was the second time someone was executed by firing squad in S.C. in five weeks and only the fifth time in the U.S. since ...

Convicted killer Michael Tanzi was executed by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday. Tanzi had launched a last-minute wave ...

After the natural passing of 35-year Arkansas death row inmate Bruce Earl Ward, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson is sharing his thoughts as the person who set his execution date eight years ago ...