Brittany Holberg, 52, has spent more than a quarter of a century on death row before a federal appeals court tossed out her ...

In the last two weeks, several major developments relating to the death penalty occurred across multiple states and they had one significant, yet surprising, thing in common: all of the efforts to ...

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky ... of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were ...

The federal appeals court said the prosecution failed to disclose that a key trial witness was a paid informant.

David Leonard Wood has spent almost forty years on Texas Death Row, convicted in the El Paso murders of six women and girls, ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Oklahoma law says anyone who has ever scored 76 or higher on an IQ test is competent to die for their crime. Science says otherwise.

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week.

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction ...

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...