Tennessee can move forward with next week's scheduled execution of a condemned man with a defibrillator after the state's ...

A man convicted of the 1994 killings of his wife and their two children became the ninth person put to death in Florida this ...

Attorneys for Byron Black, a 66-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, have filed a motion for a stay of his execution due to ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking the Supreme Court to step in as questions loom about his intellectual ...

Byron Lewis Black, a death-sentenced man in Tennessee, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution and review his ...

Just eight days after death row inmate Robert Roberson’s execution hearing, his attorneys are asking the Texas Court of ...

There are 17 inmates from Northwest Florida currently sitting on death row, including the infamous Edward Zakrzewski, Tina Brown and Leonard Gonzalez.

Texas' highest appeals court remanded the David Leonard Wood's serial killer death penalty case back to a trial court.

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Robert Roberson has requested a stay of his Oct. 16 execution date. Roberson was convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of the 2-year-old, who was diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome. He ...

Roberson, who has spent more than 20 years on death row, was convicted in 2003 of killing his daughter, Nikki.