This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about how the system works here and a firsthand account from a reporter who witnessed an execution here.

The new wife of a convicted double murderer screamed as her husband was executed in front of her, before the distraught woman ...

This is the worst treatment I have seen by far” of anyone on death row, said the Rev. Jeff Hood of Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has spared the life of a death row inmate just before he was set to receive a lethal injection on Thursday, commuting the man's sentence to life in ...

Billy Kearse was sentenced to death in 1997 for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish. Capital cases cost significantly more than life sentence cases. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a record ...

You've been waiting for this moment for years, and now that it's here, you just wish you had a little more time. In today's dark new death row video we are counting down the last 60 minutes of a death ...

Stitt previously granted clemency to death row inmate Julius Jones in 2021, but had rejected clemency recommendations in four other cases. A total of 16 men have been executed during Stitt’s time in ...