The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the ...

If unclaimed after an execution, the state pays for cremation or burial, and the remains are buried at the Captain Joe Byrd ...

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

For condemned prisoners in Texas, the final 14 days unfold under a rigidly scripted routine that culminates in the death chamber. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice claims that its execution ...

More than half of prisoners sentenced to death in the United States have been on death row for more than 18 years. Texas, ...

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

The United States executed two death row inmates Thursday evening, September 25—one in Alabama and one in Texas—as the number of state-sanctioned killings continues to rise. The executions of Geoffrey ...

A jury found Cedric Ricks guilty of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.

LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — Robert Roberson was calm and hopeful as he pondered his mortality and whether he could again avoid becoming the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied ...

An execution date has been set for a Bedford man convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in 2013 ...