Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him.

He was sentenced to death in 2010 in the murder of two teenage newlyweds, (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP File) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row prisoner declared a hunger ...

A New Mexico man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to two sex-related charges involving an Ashtabula County minor. "On Thursday Feb. 13, 2025, 41-year-old Joseph Gunter, of Albuquerque, New ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...

Warning: This story contains details of a disturbing crime. Florida death row inmate James Dennis Ford was so overcome with grief after his father's death, his former wife says she would find him ...

Procedures for their executions should meet human rights standards. Death row inmates are informed of their executions on the day they are carried out and then escorted to the scaffold.

The family of Antonie Harrison, an 18-year-old Myers Park student, has been seeking answers for his unsolved murder since he ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Death Row building is seen at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP ...