Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

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

A Texas court has again granted a stay of execution to death row inmate Robert Roberson, who has long claimed he is innocent ...

A state panel says Harris County Judge Natalia Cornelio showed bias in a high-profile death row case. She disputes the ...

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

The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals earlier this month ordered a lower court to examine whether its findings in a Dallas ...

Robert Roberson's execution is halted under the state's "junk science" law that allows courts to re-examine convictions based on outdated science.

Roberson, convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, will continue to push for a new trial. He has maintained his innocence.

Roberson was scheduled to be executed in connection with the 2003 conviction for the death of his two-year-old daughter, ...

The same day the Court of Criminal Appeals stopped Robert Roberson's execution to consider the use of "junk science" in his ...

The United States executed two death row inmates on Thursday evening -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a year that has seen an uptick in inmates being put to death.

Final meal of death row inmate Roy Lee Ward has been released, prior to his execution for raping and murdering teenager Stacy ...