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Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

All executions have been stayed in Montana since 2015 because the state requires the use of an "ultra-fast-acting barbiturate" that is no longer available.

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

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s secretary was severely beaten and left for dead but survived the attack.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

Snopes learned critical information missing from online posts and videos after interviewing the attorney who represented the ...

This new script is exemplified by stories of death row inmates who have been freed by revelations of injustice and of others who were executed despite strong cases for exoneration.

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas ...

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...