Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

There are 56 inmates on Louisiana’s death row. Louisiana is following in the footsteps of Alabama, which has executed four people with nitrogen gas. If Hoffman’s capital punishment is carried ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad in the first use of the method in the US for 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.

The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot by three prison guards at the Broad River ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

He is survived by his daughters and sons-in-law, Carolyn (Bush) and Alexander Andrade and Sarah (Bush) and Daniel Brady; his brother, William Bush ... He was preceded in death by his wife ...