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

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records show.

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and another on Tuesday.

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

FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL ... WRIGGLING IN THE UNITED STATES, OUR CONSTITUTION SAYS THAT IF WE ARE GOING TO KILL PEOPLE, WHICH IS ...

"There is a reason Brittany Marlow Holberg has been on death row for over 27 years," Judge ... March 14 (UPI) -- The United States Department of Education said Friday that has opened ...

Biden only left three mass killers on death row: Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South ...