The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

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

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

One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson killed Reverend Clint Dobson in cold blood during a church robbery but wanted a lie detector to prove ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Steven Nelson faces execution in Texas for the murder of Pastor Clint Dobson, maintaining his innocence and highlighting his ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas on Wednesday for the brutal 2011 killing of the ...

If you were wrongfully convicted of a crime in Oklahoma and got released today, the state would give you a maximum of ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.