FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

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

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

It was the second scheduled execution in the US halted on Tuesday after a federal judge stopped Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was to take place next week.

Jessie Hoffman Jr., a Black man scheduled to be the first death row inmate executed by nitrogen gas, wants a more "humane" ...

Wood is set to be executed by lethal injection on March 13, which would make him the seventh man put to death in the U.S. this year and the third alone in Texas, by far the nation’s deadliest state ...

A book by Taiwanese author Chang Chuan-fen (張娟芬) about the life of Taiwan’s oldest man on death row and the vestiges of the country’s authoritarian past has been selected to be translated as part of a ...

At the state prison in Starke, north of Gainesville, all death row inmates wear distinctive clothing to set them apart: orange shirt, blue pants. The color scheme calls to mind a certain ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward ...