On June 16, the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution of David Lee Roberts, 59. Roberts is set to die by nitrogen ...

For the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court intervened as Texas prisoners sought to navigate the Lone Star ...

For Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS had "no business intervening" in Ruben Gutierrez's DNA case and, as a result, handed death row ...

Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz is responding to a new development in a death penalty case out of Brownsville. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme ...

Teresa Youngblut, who is charged with killing a Border Patrol agency in Coventry, Vermont, may faced the death penalty.

Louisiana's chief legal officer is appealing to the state Supreme Court for the justices to develop a standard that would ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

The Nampa Police Department in 2015 released a composite sketch, left, of a homicide suspect in the death of Akrian Evans.