Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

The federal appeals court said the prosecution failed to disclose that a key trial witness was a paid informant.

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

NEW CUMBERLAND - As he rolls up in his patrol car on 4th Street, there’s Will pinning a man down, nodding for him to move on ...

If it seems like death penalty cases drag out in the courts already, new legislation introduced on Thursday would ensure that ...

In a court filing on Wednesday, District Attorney Erik Johnson said Chambers should be “punished by death” for his crimes.