death penalty

The latest twist in the long-running saga of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed again raises troubling questions about the state’s reliance...

Defendants in Texas are entitled to a fair trial but that does not always happen. This month, the Texas Court of Criminal...

The issue of how religious advisors can attend condemned prisoners might seem like a trivial one. However, it has now led to...

A defendant’s mental illness makes him or her less morally culpable of a crime and should be taken into consideration as a...

The U.S. Government recently started executing inmates again. It reached a grim milestone this month with the news it has carried out...

The case of Rodney Reed, a Texas man facing execution, has made headlines across the nation in recent weeks as millions of...

A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a temporary reprieve to a Texas inmate facing the death penalty because his...

Texas has been censured by the U.S. Supreme Court over how it determines intellectual disability when deciding if defendants should receive the...

Texas once again executed more people than any other state in 2018 when the number of prisoners put to death rose. However,...

A 66-year-old man in a wheelchair who claimed his veins would not handle a lethal injection failed to halt his death by...