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

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

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 in a small, isolated prison After 27 years on Texas Death Row, Charles ...

More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...

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 ...

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.

Texas executed Blaine Milam for killing 13-month-old Amora Carson in what prosecutors called an exorcism despite his claims ...

Days before his execution, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday sent the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson ...