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

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

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

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

HOUSTON — A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers traveled to Livingston this week to meet with Robert Roberson, a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on October 16, as his legal team makes ...

Robert Roberson waits to be interviewed in a locked visitation cell at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. [AP Photo/Annie Mulligan] The machinery of the ...

Anthony Boyd has spent more than three decades in prison for his role in the 1993 burning death of Gregory “New York” Huguley ...

The family of Anthony Boyd, an Alabama inmate set to be executed later this month, begged for his life to be spared at a press conference Wednesday morning. “This is not just about me. This is about ...

A Texas court has again granted a stay of execution to death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long claimed he is innocent in the murder of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki Curtis, saying his ...

A Texas court has halted the execution of a man convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter in a "shaken baby syndrome" case. Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has always maintained the child ...