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.

(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 ...

he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is not the man I am today," Tabler said in a statement provided to USA TODAY through his wife.

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 ...

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 ...