Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the injunction that blocked the execution of death row inmate, Jessie Hoffman. Hoffman was sentenced to death after ...

An autopsy report for a South Carolina man executed with the state’s lethal injection protocol raises more questions about whether the process is an unusually cruel and painful method of execution.

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' brief order on Tuesday recognized the claims in death row inmate David Leonard Woods appeal and granted an indefinite stay ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential informant ...

Suge Knight has continued to fire at Snoop Dogg for what he thinks is damaging the Death Row legacy with the “Gin and Juice” rapper at the helm. Suge was interviewed by The Art of Dialogue ...

Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. Randall County prosecutors relied heavily on testimony from a jail inmate, Vickie Marie Kirkpatrick, who was working as a confidential informant for the ...

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Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...