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 ...

Cedric Ricks was condemned by a Tarrant County jury in 2014 for fatally stabbing 30-year-old Roxann Diana Sanchez, and her ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Robert Roberson's execution, prompting reactions from lawmakers, Dr. Phil and the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KETK) – Rusk County District Attorney Michael Jimerson spoke at a press conference in Huntsville on Thursday after the execution of convicted murderer Blaine Milam. Milam and his ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man faces execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s ... Milam was scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. At ...

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.

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 ...