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

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

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

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

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

For condemned prisoners in Texas, the final 14 days unfold under a rigidly scripted routine that culminates in the death chamber. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice claims that its execution ...

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

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.

A jury found Cedric Ricks guilty of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man was executed Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter in a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the ...

An execution date has been set for a Bedford man convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in 2013 ...