The Texas House has set a date to hear testimony from Robert Roberson, convicted of murdering his daughter based on a questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. By J. David Goodman The case of ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said the execution of a man convicted of murder in the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter could move forward, even as a state house committee seeks to subpoena the ...

The state of Idaho tried to kill Thomas Creech once. It failed. It now wants a second chance. Last week, a state judge gave the state the green light. This decision is grotesque and is made all the ...

Alabama was set to carry out the first-ever execution by nitrogen hypoxia on death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday. The planned execution raises heated questions about the ethics of using ...

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Alabama officials said the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution was a model for other states. Critics called it appalling and far from what the state promised. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Shaila ...