The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

Lawyers and supporters are making a frantic, final push to save the life of Robert Roberson with a month left before his ...

Five death row inmates in the U.S. are expected to be executed in the coming days, potentially bringing the total for the year to 18. The upcoming executions are scheduled for Friday, Tuesday and ...

She was given Phenergan — a drug that the FDA now warns against prescribing to some children — and sent home, according to ...

A bipartisan coalition of 86 Texas House representatives is asking the state for clemency in the case of Robert Roberson.

State Senator John Whitmire said Brewer was trying to 'make a mockery' of the system with his ridiculous final meal order.

Robert Roberson, a Texas death row inmate with autism, gains support to halt his execution scheduled for October 17 amid new ...

A death row inmate requested that his final meal be a lump of dirt, and he had a bizarre reason for asking that. His jailors ...

Robert Roberson was convicted in 2002 of shaking his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, to death at his home in Palestine, Texas. Shaken baby syndrome is a controversial child abuse theory that has since ...

More than 80 state lawmakers, including Democrats and Republicans, have asked the governor to extend clemency to Robert ...

The state could be the first to carry out the death penalty for someone convicted due to the diagnosis, despite its ...

A group of advocates for a Palestine man on death row filed a petition on Tuesday to stop his execution just 30 days before ...