Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed via lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2011 murder of Reverand Clint Dobson ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...

Demetrius Terrance Frazier was the fourth person executed in the United States using nitrogen hypoxia, which involves ...

Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16 ... Kandee Martin's sister-in-law, Lisa Martin, told USA TODAY that her family hopes the execution will bring some closure. "He gets to do so many ...

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

Steven Nelson sits behind glass at the Allan B Polunsky Unit, the prison that houses the 169 men on Texas’ death row in Livingston ... Dobson’s family told USA Today.

Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was 20 years-old when he shot and killed Kandee Martin in Dorchester County, South Carolina.

In most states, inmates on death row get to pick whatever they want ... was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment.

About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died of natural causes. The United States Supreme Court on Thursday denied ...