Texas conducted its fourth execution of the year Thursday night, an event now so routine that the state's major newspapers didn't even send reporters.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a con...
UPDATE: Marvin Wilson was executed Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments that he was too mentally impaired to qualify for th...
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry -- who as Texas governor has overseen the execution of 235 convicted killers -- said Friday that he “resp...
It is this dual conviction that no one is above reproach and that no one is beyond redemption that lies at the heart of our faith. Undoubtedly it's why the early Christians were characterized by non-violence.
As the case against Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004, sinks like a rock, the truth has started to float to the top and the rats are streaming out from all sides, led by none other than Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Carl Sagan famously said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that killing prisoners acts as a deterrent or keeps police safe is indeed extraordinary.
As Morgenthau steps down as DA, one of the three primary contestants stands out. Richard Aborn has a track record of working for reform.
Signaling an indefinite halt to executions in Texas, the state's highest criminal appeals court late Tuesday stayed the lethal injection of a 28-year-...
