A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though ... of anything,” Wood told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north of Houston.

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction ...

Murrill told The Associated Press last month that she expects at least four people will be executed this year. There are 56 inmates on Louisiana’s death row. Louisiana is following in the ...

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last ... death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...