Texas on Thursday executed a 53-year-old man for the 2004 murder of an elderly woman, marking the state's 600th execution of the modern era.

Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week but a decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed it to move forward.

Edward Busby's execution would be the 600th carried out in Texas since the state resumed the death penalty in 1982.

An NBC News analysis of final statements from prisoners on Texas’ death row shows that some convey a readiness to die. Others are defiant. Many seek salvation.

Edward Busby’s execution underscores the arbitrariness, cost and moral failures of Texas’ death penalty system, Nan Tolson ...

The death row inmate has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, pointing to a codefendant’s confession in the shooting death of two people.

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A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago and who ...

Busby, who was convicted in 2005 in the deadly robbery and kidnapping of 78-year-old Laura Crane, was executed by lethal ...

Convicted serial rapist and murderer William Lewis Reece is back on Oklahoma soil, where he now awaits execution at the ...