A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week.

HUNTSVILLE — The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday blocked the execution of Robert Roberson III, directing state officials to allow the death row inmate to comply with a subpoena issued by a ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday morning that she has set the time for the lethal injection execution of death row inmate James Osgood for the 2010 rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown in ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

The women are housed at the O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville. Executions are carried out in Huntsville, about a three-hour drive from Dallas. As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in ...