A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

A memo from Pam Bondi asked prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for groups including immigrants illegally residing in the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...

Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

Tabler's execution came about an hour after Florida executed James Dennis Ford. Tabler was convicted of a 2004 double murder, ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Sermons made his ruling in the case of Hasson Bacote, who, as NBC News notes, was convicted of murder “along with two others ...