A judge in Alabama has issued a stay for a convicted killer's upcoming execution while state officials investigate whether he is competent enough to be put to death. David Lee Roberts, 59, was ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court denied a last-minute emergency petition to stay the execution of death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. Crawford's attorneys argued his original trial lawyers improperly ...

Charles Ray Crawford was executed by lethal injection for the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Kristy Ray. Crawford's legal team filed last-minute appeals, which were ultimately denied by state ...

Robert Roberson III, a Palestine man on death row, had his execution stayed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday, one week before he was scheduled to die. Roberson, 58, was convicted in ...

A judge's order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors can deactivate his heart-regulating implant would cause "chaos," state attorneys said in ...