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 ...

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 ...

Journalists, lawyers, a physician, and a widow who have witnessed nitrogen hypoxia executions in Alabama testified in federal court Thursday about what they observed. U.S. District Judge Emily Marks ...

A Texas judge on Wednesday set a new execution date for Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who says he is innocent of murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter. Judge Austin Reeve Jackson ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has set execution dates for a man and woman convicted in separate murders from the 1990s. Execution dates have been set for the following death ...