A corrections deputy died after being shot while off-duty on Monday night, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

I Am Ready, Warden,” nominated for an Oscar, follows John Henry Ramirez in the days before he was executed in Texas for murder. It also spotlights the sons of both Ramirez and his victim.

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

Two men in Texas are sentenced to death for murdering their children — for one of them, it is already too late. For the other ...

A man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment is set to be executed Thursday evening in Alabama in ...

An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

Demetrius Terrence Frazier broke into the window of Brown's apartment on Nov. 27, 1991, before demanding money and raping her ...

Steven Nelson, a 37-year-old convicted killer, became the first person executed in Texas in 2025. Nelson was put to death by lethal injection for ...

Texas man Steven Nelson, convicted in 2012 of murdering a pastor the year before, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday evening.