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

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

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

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier spoke his final words yesterday evening (February 6) after being executed using nitrogen gas.

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first execution in ...

Cell death is achieved by two fundamentally different mechanisms: apoptosis and necrosis. Apoptosis is dependent on caspase activation, whereas the caspase-independent necrotic signaling pathway ...

Death Row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson was convicted of murder after suffocating a pastor in his own church during a robbery, ...

SKIPPACK — An inmate on death row at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix was found unresponsive in his cell and ...

A man on Pennsylvania’s death row was found deceased in their cell on Tuesday morning. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive at ...

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion robbery ...

Steven Nelson, who is set to be executed today after being sentenced to death for his role in the murder of pastor Clint ...