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 ...

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

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

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

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

In a new interview, allegations came to light that the judge who presided over Roberson's trial had previously given family members permission to take Roberson's daughter off life support.

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 ...

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.

Over 300 bodies have been added to the more than 3,000 estimated to be at Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas.

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 ...