On the eve of the next round of the state's effort to get a Harris County District Court judge taken off a death penalty case, the exchange of criticism is ratcheting up. In motions and responses ...

"Something is rotten in Denmark," the state wrote in a Dec. 20 motion. The judge is accused of having improper communication ...

Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty ...

A death row inmate from Branchville is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 31, according to an order issued Friday by the South ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering attacks on ...

A federal trial date is set for the man accused of killing a woman and kidnapping her daughters in the deadly Amber Alert ...

For the past several weeks, a major challenge to Kansas’ death penalty has been underway in a Wyandotte County murder case.

Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life ...