Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid ...

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.

Joseph Johnson was the last person put to death by electrocution in Texas, on July 30, 1964. The men are housed in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston in single cells ... on death row in Texas ...

(NEXSTAR) – A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, the inmate—Brad Sigmon, 67—has chosen to die by ...

This execution marks the second one in the United States on the same day ... regret and said he was at peace with his death. Texas executed Death Row inmate Richard Lee Tabler on Thursday ...

In an hour-long interview with USA TODAY at the state’s Death Row just north of Houston, Wood stood behind his longtime claims of innocence, picked apart the state’s case against him and ...