Raymond Johnson’s execution in Oklahoma is the first of five executions scheduled across the country over eight days.

A federal appeals court granted Edward Busby a temporary stay after the 53-year-old argued he's intellectually disabled. The ...

Death penalty opponents are waiting to see if the state will proceed with what they say would be an unconstitutional execution. Texas officials plan to put Edward Busby to death today, May 14, despite ...

The ruling cited concerns over Edward Busby’s eligibility for capital punishment because of intellectual disability.

Opponents of the death penalty gathered outside the Texas Capitol on Tuesday to urge Gov. Greg Abbott to halt the scheduled ...

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 ...

James Broadnax married his partner, Tiana Krasniqi, Tuesday evening in a ceremony at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in Livingston. He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on April 30.

First Florida executed James Hitchcock for the 1976 murder of his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter. Then Texas executed ...

The day before her wedding, a 31-year-old woman discussed how she is marrying a man on death row about two weeks before he is set to be executed by lethal injection in Texas. Tiana Krasniqi was ...